fitted(object, levels, lmeFit, conLin)
lmeStruct,
representing a list of linear mixed-effects model components, such as
reStruct,
corStruct, and
varFunc objects.
object. Level
values increase from outermost to innermost grouping, with
level zero corresponding to the population fitted values. Defaults to
the highest or innermost level of grouping.
beta and
b
containing respectively the fixed effects estimates and the random
effects estimates to be used to calculate the fitted values. Defaults
to
attr(object, "lmeFit").
"Xy", corresponding to a regression
matrix (
X) combined with a response vector (
y), and
"logLik", corresponding to the log-likelihood of the
underlying lme model. Defaults to
attr(object, "conLin").
level,
the returned value is a vector with the fitted values at the desired
level; else, when multiple grouping levels are specified in
level
, the returned object is a matrix with
columns given by the fitted values at different levels.
NOTE: This method function is generally only used inside
lme and
fitted.lme
.
Bates, D.M. and Pinheiro, J.C. (1998) "Computational methods for multilevel models" available in PostScript or PDF formats at http://nlme.stat.wisc.edu