[R-sig-ME] Lmer and variance-covariance matrix

[Paul Johnson]

Dear Antoine:

This is interesting, but...

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Antoine Paccard
<antoine.paccard at unine.ch> wrote:
> Dear modelers,
> I have been trying in the past few months to obtain a variance-
> covariance matrix using lmer. I failed multiple times until I decided
> to do it under SAS.

Since many people here think your model cannot be fit, but you say it
can be fit with SAS, can we please see your SAS command and the
output?  SAS may be throwing out some parameters from the model
automatically, but lmer does not.

Just guessing :)

PJ

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