# glmmPQL

0th

Percentile

##### Fit Generalized Linear Mixed Models via PQL

Fit a GLMM model with multivariate normal random effects, using Penalized Quasi-Likelihood.

Keywords
models
##### Usage
glmmPQL(fixed, random, family, data, correlation, weights,
control, niter = 10, verbose = TRUE, ...)
##### Arguments
fixed
a two-sided linear formula giving fixed-effects part of the model.
random
a formula or list of formulae describing the random effects.
family
a GLM family.
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 iterations.
verbose
logical: print out record of iterations?
...
Further arguments for lme.
##### Details

glmmPQL works by repeated calls to lme, so package nlme will be loaded at first use if necessary.

##### Value

• A object of class "lme": see lmeObject.

##### References

Schall, R. (1991) Estimation in generalized linear models with random effects. Biometrika 78, 719--727.

Breslow, N. E. and Clayton, D. G. (1993) Approximate inference in generalized linear mixed models. Journal of the American Statistical Association 88, 9--25.

Wolfinger, R. and O'Connell, M. (1993) Generalized linear mixed models: a pseudo-likelihood approach. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 48, 233--243.

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth edition. Springer.

lme

• glmmPQL
##### Examples
library(nlme) # will be loaded automatically if omitted
summary(glmmPQL(y ~ trt + I(week > 2), random = ~ 1 | ID,
family = binomial, data = bacteria))
<testonly># an example of offset
summary(glmmPQL(y ~ trt + week, random = ~ 1 | ID,
family = binomial, data = bacteria))
summary(glmmPQL(y ~ trt + week + offset(week), random = ~ 1 | ID,
family = binomial, data = bacteria))</testonly>
Documentation reproduced from package MASS, version 7.3-1, License: GPL-2 | GPL-3

### Community examples

Looks like there are no examples yet.