Function npar.gremlin
returns an object with attributes n.fxd
and n.bndry
which give additional information about the parameters
estimated and contributing to the overall df
of the model. n.fxd
returns the total number of parameters (No. fixed effects + No. (co)variance
comonents) minus the number of parameters constrained to a certain value. Thus,
n.fxd
represents the number of parameters that can vary and, as a
consequence, affect the log-likelihood.
The attribute n.bndry
reports the number of parameters that were
restrained to stay inside the boundaries of allowable parameter space (e.g.,
a variance that was not allowed to be negative).