Fränzi Korner <fraenzi.korner <at> oikostat.ch> writes: > Have you got an answer? I am now working with R 2.7.1.. This R-version does > not give the scale parameter in the summary of an lmer-object. > > Therefore, I would like to calculate the scale parameter by hand, but I did > not find out how. >
One quick answer is that you can retrieve the scale parameter by using the sigma function, which is not exported from the lme4 namespace (but probably? should be): lme4:::sigma(obj) The other answer is that you might want to post this on the r-sig-mixed list. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.