Here is a piece of code fitting a model to a (part) of a dataset, just for illustration. I can extract the random interaction and the residual variance in group meth==1 using VarCorr, but how do I get the other residual variance?
Is there any way to get the other variances in numerical form directly - it seems a litte contraintuitive to use "as.numeric" when extracting estimates, it's a bit like good old days writing SAS-programs that reads the SAS output files... Bendix ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- library( nlme ) dfr <- structure(list(meth = structure(c(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2), .Label = c("CO", "pulse"), class = "factor"), item = c(1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4), repl = c(1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3), y = c(78, 76.4, 77.2, 68.7, 67.6, 68.3, 82.9, 80.1, 80.7, 62.3, 65.8, 67.5, 71, 72, 73, 68, 67, 68, 82, 77, 77, 43, 69, 77)), .Names = c("meth", "item", "repl", "y"), row.names = c("1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "11", "12", "184", "185", "186", "187", "188", "189", "190", "191", "192", "193", "194", "195"), class = "data.frame") m1 <- lme( y ~ factor( meth ) + factor( item ), random = ~1 | MI, weights = varIdent( form = ~1 | meth ), method ="REML", data = cbind( dfr, MI=interaction( dfr$meth, dfr$item ) ) ) m1 # The MI std and the residual std for meth==1 as.numeric(VarCorr(m1)[,2]) ______________________________________________ Bendix Carstensen Senior Statistician Steno Diabetes Center Niels Steensens Vej 2-4 DK-2820 Gentofte Denmark +45 44 43 87 38 (direct) +45 30 75 87 38 (mobile) +45 44 43 73 13 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.biostat.ku.dk/~bxc ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.