corCAR1(value, form, fixed)
value
| the correlation between two observations one unit of time apart. Must be between 0 and 1. Defaults to 0.2. |
form
|
a one sided formula of the form ~ t , or code{~ t |
g}, specifying a time covariate t and, optionally, a
grouping factor g . Covariates for this correlation structure
need not be integer valued. When a grouping factor is present in
form , the correlation structure is assumed to apply only
to observations within the same grouping level; observations with
different grouping levels are assumed to be uncorrelated. Defaults to
~ 1 , which corresponds to using the order of the observations
in the data as a covariate, and no groups.
|
fixed
|
an optional logical value indicating whether the
coefficients should be allowed to vary in the optimization, or kept
fixed at their initial value. Defaults to FALSE , in which case
the coefficients are allowed to vary.
|
corCAR1
class,
representing an autocorrelation structure of order 1, with a
continuous time covariate. Objects created using this constructor need
to be later initialized using the appropriate initialize
method.corCAR1
, representing an autocorrelation
structure of order 1, with a continuous time covariate.Jones, R.H. (1993) "Longitudinal Data with Serial Correlation: A State-space Approach", Chapman and Hall
initialize.corStruct
library(lme) ## covariate is Time and grouping factor is Mare cs1 <- corCAR1(0.2, form = ~ Time | Mare)