Correlation structure in lmer function

You can't. That is one of the (few) drawbacks of lme4.

HTH,

Thierry 


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Verzonden: donderdag 17 september 2009 11:51
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Onderwerp: [R-sig-ME] Correlation structure in lmer function

Dear All,

Could someone?give some advice on the way to define the correlation structure in lmer function from the lme4 package?

Thank you
Fir




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