object
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an object inheriting from class reStruct ,
representing a random effects structure and consisting of a list of
pdMat objects.
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data
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a data frame in which to evaluate the variables defined in
formula(object) .
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conLin
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a condensed linear model object, consisting of a list
with components "Xy" , corresponding to a regression matrix
(X ) combined with a response vector (y ), and
"logLik" , corresponding to the log-likelihood of the
underlying model.
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control
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an optional list with a single component niterEM
controlling the number of iterations for the EM algorithm used to
refine initial parameter estimates. It is given as a list for
compatibility with other initialize methods. Defaults to
list(niterEM = 20) .
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