Compute the negative log-likelihood of the null model, namely the linear model without rondom effects at all.
get.nl(theta, M, y, V, VCNs, nObs, dW)the value of the negative log-likelihood.
p-dimensional vector parameter.
A \(n \times K\) dimensional (design) matrix.
n-dimensional vector of the time-adjacent cellular increments
A \(p \times K\) dimensional net-effect matrix.
p-dimensional list of the partial derivatives of W w.r.t. theta.