Message-ID: <loom.20071201T160227-587@post.gmane.org>
Date: 2007-12-01T16:08:28Z
From: Dieter Menne
Subject: lmer and method call
Douglas Bates <bates <at> stat.wisc.edu> writes:
(lmer)
> The default is PQL, to refine the
> starting estimates, followed by optimization of the Laplace
> approximation. In some cases it is an advantage to suppress the PQL
> iterations which can be done with one of the settings for the control
> argument.
I had found out the hard way that it is often better to let PQL
play the game rather loosely. Yet I never dared to tell someone, for fear
the approximation could end up in the wrong slot,
Any rules (beside trying variants) if I can trust such a result?
Dieter