MEestimate               package:nlme               R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Estimate the parameters in a linear mixed-effects model.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     MEestimate(object, groups, conLin=attr(object, "conLin"))

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

  object: an object that inherits from class `lmeStruct', describing a
          linear mixed-effects model or a nonlinear mixed-effects
          model.

  groups: a factor or list of factors giving the grouping of the
          observations

  conLin: a condensed linear model object.  The default is
          `attr(object, "conLin")'.

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     This is a utility function used by `lme' and `nlme'.  It is not
     intended for direct use.

_V_a_l_u_e:

     A list with components 

  logLik: the log-likelihood at the estimate.

       b: the estimated BLUP's (Best Linear Unbiased Predictors) of the
          random effects

    beta: the estimates of the fixed effects

   sigma: the estimated standard deviation of the within-subject noise
          term.

  varFix: the estimated variance-covariance matrix of the fixed effects

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Jose Pinheiro jcp@research.bell-labs.com, Douglas Bates
     bates@stat.wisc.edu

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     `MEEM', `MEdecomp', `lme', `nlme'

