[R-sig-ME] user-defined covariance matrix for linear mixed models

[Vincent Careau]

Hi,
I would say ASReml-R. It is free for academics using Windows. I don't know
if someone else figured out how to do an animal model (that seems like what
you want to do - or something very similar) with other mixed model packages
in R.  ASReml-R uses the Average Information algorithm. Perhaps the typical
methods used for the R packages would take too long with as many random
effects as an animal model is trying to estimate. 

By the way, Matt Wolak just created the "nadiv" package that you can use to
include dominance in your animal model, given you have the pedigree links to
estimate it independently from additive genetic variance. 
Good luck,
vc

Vincent Careau
NSERC Postdoctoral fellow
Department of Biology
University of California
Riverside, CA, 92521
http://faculty.ucr.edu/~vcareau/


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Subject: [R-sig-ME] user-defined covariance matrix for linear mixed models

I am looking for an R package or function that would estimate the
variance-covariance matrix of a linear mixed model.
I have used pedigreemm and lme4 for simple examples but I would like to
know how to provide my own covariance structure.
E.g. G, the variance-covariance matrix of a lmm model will typically be the
tensor product of a typically small matrix g (e.g. a 2 x2 matrix of 3
variance-covariance parameters to estimate : sigxx,sigxy,sigyy) with of a
known matrix A. I wish to read matrix A from a file, and ask the R function
to estimate g. I am not interested only in the case of diagonal g matrices.

Is anybody aware of an interface e.g. to lme4, that would allow users to
specify and fit their models in such, flexible, way?
Please specify in your answer the input format for A (i.e sparse CSR,
dense, trios, or any) - (g is in dense format).

Note that a package like Jarrod Hadfield's MCMCglmm allows such flexible
definitions. However, I am looking for a non MCMC estimator (e.g. REML).

P.Fullsack
Dalhousie University

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