atc creates a diagonal covariance structure for specific levels of the random effect to be used with the mmec solver.
Usage
atc(x, levs, thetaC, theta)
Value
$res
a list with the provided vector and the variance covariance structure expected.
Arguments
x
vector of observations for the random effect.
levs
levels of the random effect to use for building the incidence matrices.
thetaC
an optional matrix for constraints in the variance components.
theta
an optional matrix for initial values of the variance components.
Author
Giovanny Covarrubias-Pazaran
References
Covarrubias-Pazaran G (2016) Genome assisted prediction of quantitative traits using the R package sommer. PLoS ONE 11(6): doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0156744
See Also
The function vsc to know how to use atc in the mmec solver.