[R] intervals {nlme} lower CI greater than upper CI !!!????

[Ben Bolker]

Federico Bonofiglio <bonoricus <at> gmail.com> writes:

>

  You're confused by the formatting differences betwen
columns.  The first column uses 'standard' notation, the
second and third use 'scientific' notation -- see comments
inline.

> > GLU<-lme(gluc~rt*cd4+sex+age+rf+nadir+pharmac+factor(hcv)+factor(hbs)+
> + haartd+hivdur+factor(arv),
> +  random= ~rt|id, na.action=na.omit)
> 
> > intervals(GLU)$fixed
>                         lower          est.         upper
> (Intercept)     67.3467070345  7.362307e+01  7.989944e+01
> rt               *0.0148050160*  6.249304e-02  1.101811e-01

   this is 0.0148... vs. 0.101811 ...

> cd4             -0.0032133709 -6.566501e-04  1.900071e-03
> sexM             0.9601467541  3.565606e+00  6.171066e+00
> age              *0.2436472425*  3.420025e-01  4.403578e-01

  this is 0.2436...  vs. 0.4403578

> rfOTHER         -5.0933264232 -1.198439e+00  2.696449e+00

[snip]

> ...check for instance on row 2 and 5 (bold numbers)....isn't  something
> really weird there ?
> lower interval greater than upper !!????
>