This is what the vcov() generic is for. You are asking for internal details from a different class ("summary.lm").
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Sven Garbade wrote: > Hi list, > > can I extract the cov.unscaled ("the unscaled covariance matrix") from a > gls fit (package nlme), like with summary.lm? Background: In a fixed > effect meta analysis regression the standard errors of the coefficients > can be computed as sqrt(diag(cov.unscaled)) where cov.unscaled is > (X'WX). I try do do this with a gls-fit. I don't think so: the 'unscaled' is a clue. The vcov method is > stats:::vcov.lm function (object, ...) { so <- summary.lm(object, corr = FALSE) so$sigma^2 * so$cov.unscaled } -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ 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.