Arguments
formula
a two-sided linear model formula giving fixed-effects part of the model.
random
A formula or list of formulae describing the random effects.
data
an optional data frame used as the first place to find
variables in the formulae.
correlation
an optional correlation structure.
weights
optional case weights as in glm
.
control
an optional argument to be passed to lme
.
niter
maximum number of PQL iterations. Default is 20.
method
character: Estimation method to be used. Possible values are
"PQL"
, the default, or "Laplace"
.
"PQL"
provides penalized quasi-likelihood estimates.
"Laplace"
provides PQL
estimation foll
verbose
logical: print out record of iterations? Default is FALSE
.
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Further arguments for lme
.