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I can ask my question using and example from Chapter 1 of Pinheiro & Bates. > # 1.4 An Analysis of Covariance Model > > OrthoFem <- Orthodont[ Orthodont$Sex == "Female", ] > fm1OrthF <- + lme( distance ~ age, data = OrthoFem, random = ~ 1 | Subject ) > summary( fm1OrthF ) Linear mixed-effects model fit by REML Data: OrthoFem AIC BIC

Hi all, To follow up on an older thread, it was suggested that the following would produce confidence intervals for the estimated BLUPs from a linear mixed effect model: OrthoFem<-Orthodont[Orthodont$Sex=="Female",] fm1OrthF. <- lmer(distance~age+(age|Subject), data=OrthoFem) fm1.s <- coef(fm1OrthF.)$Subject fm1.s.var <- fm1OrthF. at bVar$Subject fm1.s0.s <-

Hello, I am running this script from Pinheiro & Bates book in R Version 2.1.1 (WinXP). But, I can't plot Figure 2.3. What's wrong? TIA. Rod. --------------------------------------------------------- >library(nlme) > names( Orthodont ) [1] "distance" "age" "Subject" "Sex" > levels( Orthodont$Sex ) [1] "Male"

Hello, I am looking for a way to obtain standard errors for emprirical Bayes estimates of a model fitted with lmer (like the ones plotted on page 14 of the document available at http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/content_storage_01/0000000b/80/2b/b3/94.pdf). Harold Doran mentioned (http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/help/05/08/10638.html) that the posterior modes' variances

Dear r-helpers, After successfully running require(nlme) vfr.lmL <- lmList( estimate ~ (slant + respType + visField + hand)^2 | subject, vfr ) pairs(vfr.lmL, id = 0.01, adj = -0.5) # Pinheiro & Bates (p. 141) produces the following error: Error in sprintf(gettext(fmt, domain = domain), ...) : object "form" not found Any guesses as to what I may have done wrong?

Dear all, I am starting to use the lme package (and plan to teach a course based on it next semester...). To understand what lme is doing precisely, I used balanced datasets described in Pinheiro and Bates and tried to compare the lme outputs to that of aov. Here is what I obtained: > data(Machines) > summary(aov(score~Machine+Error(Worker/Machine),data=Machines)) Error: Worker

Hello! I wonder how can one get upper and lower limits of a prediction interval -- exact values? They are shown on caterpillar plot using ranef() with argument postVar=TRUE, but I would like to know them. A while ago, some discussions were opened on "Confidence Intervals for Random Effect BLUP's", but the answer was never clear: http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help at

Dear R list users, the singluar value decomposition of a symmetric matrix M is UDV^(T), where U = V. La.svd(M) gives as output three elements: the diagonal of D and the two orthogonal matrices u and vt (which is already the transpose of v). I noticed that the transpose of vt is not exactly u. Why is that? thank you for your attention and your help Stefano AVVISO IMPORTANTE: Questo messaggio di