[R-sig-ME] Suggestions on how to correct a misapprehension?

[Ben Bolker]

   FWIW I can see that JP van Paridon has already gotten us most of the 
way there.

FWIW I don't think SAS uses EM either, at least as far as I can tell:

https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/statcdc/14.2/statug/statug_mixed_details58.htm

PROC MIXED uses a ridge-stabilized Newton-Raphson algorithm to optimize 
either a full (ML) or residual (REML) likelihood function. The 
Newton-Raphson algorithm is preferred to the EM algorithm (Lindstrom and 
Bates 1988). PROC MIXED profiles the likelihood with respect to the 
fixed effects and also with respect to the residual variance whenever it 
appears reasonable to do so. The residual profiling can be avoided by 
using the NOPROFILE option of the PROC MIXED statement. PROC MIXED uses 
the MIVQUE0 method (Rao 1972; Giesbrecht 1989) to compute initial values.

On 2022-12-13 8:25 p.m., Stuart Luppescu wrote:
> On 12/14/22 02:39, Douglas Bates wrote:
>> I have never gone through the process of proposing an edit in a Wikipedia
>> article.  As I understand it I would need to create a login etc.  Would
>> anyone who does have such a login be willing to propose an edit and 
>> save me
>> the steps?
> 
> I was in this situation recently. I found AN ERROR in Wikipedia and 
> resolved to fix it, but the Wikipedia admins wouldn't let me. I had been 
> logged into my VPN on DigitalOcean, and they disable all attempts to 
> edit articles from DigitalOcean. I had to log out of the VPN, and erase 
> my Wikipedia cookies before I could correct the entry. In any case, I 
> think I have a Wikipedia login, but I couldn't remember it so I just did 
> the edit as "guest". If you want to be able to talk about your edit with 
> other people post hoc, I think you might need a login. Otherwise, just 
> do it without a login.
>