A bmerMod
object contains one additional slot beyond the base
merMod
class:
priors
:A named list comprised of covPriors
,
fixefPrior
, and residPrior
.
In addition, the devcomp
slot, element cmp
includes the
penalty
item which is the computed deviance for the priors. Add
this to the regular deviance to obtain the value of the objective function
that is used in optimization.