varWeights {nlme}R Documentation

Extract Variance Function Weights

Description

The inverse of the standard deviations corresponding to the variance function structure represented by object are returned.

Usage

varWeights(object)

Arguments

object an object inheriting from class varFunc, representing a variance function structure.

Value

if object has a weights attribute, its value is returned; else NULL is returned.

Author(s)

Jose Pinheiro Jose.Pinheiro@pharma.novartis.com and Douglas Bates bates@stat.wisc.edu

See Also

logLik.varFunc

Examples

vf1 <- varPower(form=~age)
vf1 <- Initialize(vf1, Orthodont)
coef(vf1) <- 0.3
varWeights(vf1)[1:10]
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