[R-sig-ME] r examples of mixed models from scratch

[Juliet Hannah]

Thanks for the suggestions. By no means is this for an application. It
is just for my education. I thought I should be able to find some
simple examples, like the one posted in this thread. Perhaps I cannot
find many examples online because of the complexities arising for even
simple cases.

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Ben Bolker <bolker at ufl.edu> wrote:
> Juliet Hannah wrote:
>> Hi List,
>>
>> I'm trying to learn more about mixed models in detail. Does anyone know of
>> any examples where code is provided showing simple examples of doing
>> this from scratch. For example, setting up a likelihood, using optim, and things
>> like that.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Juliet
>>
>
>  If I understand what you want to do correctly, this is probably not
> something you want to mess with -- the computational details of
> implementing mixed model fitting are tricky. If you do need a "custom"
> mixed model, implementing them in AD Model Builder or WinBUGS will
> probably be your best bet (there are R interfaces to both of these
> programs).
>
>  Ben Bolker
>
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