[R] NLME error model with several responses

[jaclea]

Hi!

I am using the NLME package for R to modeling glucose-insuline
response with Bergman's model, very similar to the example in the
documentation for the NLME package. 

My question concerns the model for the residuals. I use a proportional
model , Var(e_{ij})=(sigma_g*G(t))^2 for the glucose response and
Var(e_{ij})=(sigma_i * I(t))^2 for the insulin response. Hence I have
a varPower model, but I know that the power coefficient is 2, but with
different sigma coefficients for the two responses.

If I fit a model I get an estimation of the standard deviation of the
residuals, which directly can be obtained from the output: The value of the
residual 0.01966.. is very close to the real value 0.02 which I have used
for both responses in this example.

Random effects:
 Formula: list(Sg ~ 1, Si ~ 1, n ~ 1, gamma ~ 1, G0 ~ 1, I0 ~ 1)
 Level: id
 Structure: Diagonal
                   Sg                Si                 n                
gamma          G0             I0                   Residual
StdDev: 0.5439934 0.5075674 0.3192111 0.3227774 0.08773017 0.1060001
0.01966552

However, there is only one value. Is that some kind of average over all
samples? What if I want to extract the two different sigma coefficients for
the two
responses. Just as in the example I have a level "type" that specifies
which response it is.

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