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2017 Mar 07
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Potential clue for Bug 16975 - lme fixed sigma - inconsistent REML estimation
Dear list, I was trying to create a VarClass for nlme to work with Fay-Herriot (FH) models. The idea was to create a modification of VarComb that instead of multiplying the variance functions made their sum (I called it varSum). After some fails etc... I found that the I was not getting the expected results because I needed to make sigma fixed. Trying to find how to make sigma fixed I run into this bug (with uconfirmed status but listed) report https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16975 The ideas they pr...