Questions on the results from glmmPQL(MASS)

Dear Rusers,
  Sorry for re-post my question in this list. Some person has recommend
that this list is more specific for me.
  I have used R,S-PLUS and SAS to analyze the sample data "bacteria" in
MASS package. Their results are listed below.

Q3:In SAS and other softwares, we can get p-values for the random effect
'sigma', but i donot see the p-values in the results of R/SPLUS. I have used
attributes() to look for them, but no p values. Anybody knows how to get
p-values for the random effect 'sigma',.

Someone answered your specific questions before.
Because this is a simple random intercept model, you can also use the
glmmML R package, which gives:

glmmML(y ~ trt + I(week > 2), cluster=ID, family=binomial, data=bacteria)

                    coef se(coef)      z Pr(>|z|)
(Intercept)      3.5482   0.6933  5.118 3.09e-07
trtdrug         -1.3667   0.6768 -2.020 4.34e-02
trtdrug+        -0.7826   0.6830 -1.146 2.52e-01
I(week > 2)TRUE -1.5986   0.4754 -3.363 7.71e-04

Standard deviation in mixing distribution:  1.242
Std. Error:                                 0.4024

Residual deviance: 192.3 on 215 degrees of freedom      AIC: 202.3

You can then construct a test for the random effect.

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