On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 10:01 -0800, Bert Gunter wrote: > Ummm... > > Define: "Confidence interval for BLUP" . > > I know what a confidence interval for a parameter or function of parameters > (which is what a predicted value is) is; but a BLUP is neither, so I don't > get what a confidence interval for it should mean. > > Feel free to reply off list, as this is clearly not an R question. > > > Bert Gunter > Genentech Nonclinical Statistics
Would you feel better with "prediction interval"? What I'm asking is how to access the information from lmer to compute intervals for the BLUPS that reflect the uncertainty in these estimates. The code I showed was taken from someone who had the same question and the various replies. Rick B. ______________________________________________ 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.
