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multivariate mixed model

3 messages · Irene Mantzouni, Douglas Bates, Andrew Robinson

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From: Irene Mantzouni
Sent: Mon 10/03/2008 7:17 PM
To: R-sig-mixed-models at r-project.org
Subject: multivariate mixed model 



Hi all!



Just a quick question: 

Is it possible to fit a normal multivariate linear mixed model either with nlme or lme4? 

Reference to an example would be very helpful!



Thank you!
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On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Irene Mantzouni <ima at aqua.dtu.dk> wrote:

            
Questions like that can precipitate answers like

install.packages("fortunes")
library(fortunes)
fortune("Yoda")

However, I don't know of an easy way of fitting such models using the
nlme or the lme4 packages.
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It's not easy, but it can be done.  The approach is to define each
multivariate response as a cluster.  I did it in nlme for the
following article:

Robinson, A.P., 2004. Preserving correlation while modelling diameter
distributions.  Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34, 221

Daniel Hall (University of Georgia, I think) did it for non-linear
models, in a paper published in Biometrics (I think) about 5 years ago
...

Andrew
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 07:58:35PM +0100, Irene Mantzouni wrote: