nlme (version 3.1-31)

MEestimate: Estimate mixed-effects parameters

Description

Estimate the parameters in a linear mixed-effects model.

Usage

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

Value

A list with componentslogLikthe log-likelihood at the estimate.bthe estimated BLUP's (Best Linear Unbiased Predictors) of the random effectsbetathe estimates of the fixed effectssigmathe estimated standard deviation of the within-subject noise term.varFixthe estimated variance-covariance matrix of the fixed effects

Details

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

See Also

MEEM, MEdecomp, lme, nlme