NAG C Library Function Document

nag_ml_mixed_regsn (Integer n, Integer ncol, const double dat[], Integer tddat, const Integer levels[], Integer yvid, Integer cwid, Integer nfv, const Integer fvid[], Integer fint, Integer nrv, const Integer rvid[], Integer nvpr, const Integer vpr[], Integer rint, Integer svid, double gamma[], Integer *nff, Integer *nrf, Integer *df, double *ml, Integer lb, double b[], double se[], Integer maxit, double tol, Integer *warn, NagError *fail)

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Description

nag_ml_mixed_regsn (g02jbc) fits a model of the form:

y = X β + Z ν + ε

where

$y$ is a vector of $n$ observations on the dependent variable,
$X$ is a known $n$ by $p$ design matrix for the fixed independent variables,
$β$ is a vector of length $p$ of unknown fixed effects,
$Z$ is a known $n$ by $q$ design matrix for the random independent variables,
$ν$ is a vector of length $q$ of unknown random effects;

and

$ε$ is a vector of length $n$ of unknown random errors.

Both

ν

and

ε

are assumed to have a Gaussian distribution with expectation zero and

Var [\begin{matrix} ν \\ ε \end{matrix}] = [\begin{matrix} G & 0 \\ 0 & R \end{matrix}]

where

R = σ_{R}^{2} I

I

is the

n \times n

identity matrix and

G

is a diagonal matrix. It is assumed that the random variables,

Z

, can be subdivided into

g \leq q

groups with each group being identically distributed with expectations zero and variance

σ_{i}^{2}

. The diagonal elements of matrix

G

therefore take one of the values

\{σ_{i}^{2} : i = 1, 2, \dots, g\}

, depending on which group the associated random variable belongs to.

The model therefore contains three sets of unknowns, the fixed effects,

β

, the random effects

ν

and a vector of

g + 1

variance components,

γ

, where

γ = \{σ_{1}^{2}, σ_{2}^{2}, \dots, σ_{g - 1}^{2}, σ_{g}^{2}, σ_{R}^{2}\}

. Rather than working directly with

γ

, nag_ml_mixed_regsn (g02jbc) uses an iterative process to estimate

γ^{*} = \{σ_{1}^{2} / σ_{R}^{2}, σ_{2}^{2} / σ_{R}^{2}, \dots, σ_{g - 1}^{2} / σ_{R}^{2}, σ_{g}^{2} / σ_{R}^{2}, 1\}

. Due to the iterative nature of the estimation a set of initial values,

γ_{0}

, for

γ^{*}

is required. nag_ml_mixed_regsn (g02jbc) allows these initial values either to be supplied by you or calculated from the data using the minimum variance quadratic unbiased estimators (MIVQUE0) suggested by Rao (1972).

nag_ml_mixed_regsn (g02jbc) fits the model using a quasi-Newton algorithm to maximize the log-likelihood function:

- 2 l_{R} = \log (|V|) + (n) \log (r^{'} V^{- 1} r) + \log (2 π / n)

where

V = Z G Z^{'} + R, r = y - X b and b = {(X^{'} V^{- 1} X)}^{- 1} X^{'} V^{- 1} y .

Once the final estimates for

γ^{*}

have been obtained, the value of

σ_{R}^{2}

is given by:

σ_{R}^{2} = (r^{'} V^{- 1} r) / (n - p) .

Case weights,

W_{c}

, can be incorporated into the model by replacing

X^{'} X

and

Z^{'} Z

with

X^{'} W_{c} X

and

Z^{'} W_{c} Z

respectively, for a diagonal weight matrix

W_{c}

The log-likelihood,

l_{R}

, is calculated using the sweep algorithm detailed in Wolfinger et al. (1994).

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References

Goodnight J H (1979) A tutorial on the SWEEP operator The American Statistician 33(3) 149–158

Harville D A (1977) Maximum likelihood approaches to variance component estimation and to related problems JASA 72 320–340

Rao C R (1972) Estimation of variance and covariance components in a linear model J. Am. Stat. Assoc. 67 112–115

Stroup W W (1989) Predictable functions and prediction space in the mixed model procedure Applications of Mixed Models in Agriculture and Related Disciplines Southern Cooperative Series Bulletin No. 343 39–48

Wolfinger R, Tobias R and Sall J (1994) Computing Gaussian likelihoods and their derivatives for general linear mixed models SIAM Sci. Statist. Comput. 15 1294–1310

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Arguments

1: $n$ – IntegerInput

On entry:

n

, the number of observations.

Constraint:

n \geq 1

2: $ncol$ – IntegerInput

On entry: the number of columns in the data matrix, dat.

Constraint:

ncol \geq 1

3: $dat [n \times tddat]$ – const doubleInput

Note: where

DAT (i, j)

appears in this document, it refers to the array element

dat [(i - 1) \times tddat + j - 1]

On entry: array containing all of the data. For the

i

th observation:

$DAT (i, yvid)$ holds the dependent variable, $y$ ;
if $cwid \neq 0$ , $DAT (i, cwid)$ holds the case weights;
if $svid \neq 0$ , $DAT (i, svid)$ holds the subject variable.

The remaining columns hold the values of the independent variables.

Constraints:

if $cwid \neq 0$ , $DAT (i, cwid) \geq 0.0$ ;
if $levels [j - 1] \neq 1$ , $1 \leq DAT (i, j) \leq levels [j - 1]$ .

4: $tddat$ – IntegerInput

On entry: the stride separating matrix column elements in the array dat.

Constraint:

tddat \geq ncol

5: $levels [ncol]$ – const IntegerInput

On entry:

levels [i - 1]

contains the number of levels associated with the

i

th variable of the data matrix dat. If this variable is continuous or binary (i.e., only takes the values zero or one) then

levels [i - 1]

should be

1

; if the variable is discrete then

levels [i - 1]

is the number of levels associated with it and

DAT (j, i)

is assumed to take the values

1

levels [i - 1]

, for

j = 1, 2, \dots, n

Constraint:

levels [i - 1] \geq 1

, for

i = 1, 2, \dots, ncol

6: $yvid$ – IntegerInput

On entry: the column of dat holding the dependent,

y

, variable.

Constraint:

1 \leq yvid \leq ncol

7: $cwid$ – IntegerInput

On entry: the column of dat holding the case weights.

cwid = 0

, no weights are used.

Constraint:

0 \leq cwid \leq ncol

8: $nfv$ – IntegerInput

On entry: the number of independent variables in the model which are to be treated as being fixed.

Constraint:

0 \leq nfv < ncol

9: $fvid [nfv]$ – const IntegerInput

On entry: the columns of the data matrix dat holding the fixed independent variables with

fvid [i - 1]

holding the column number corresponding to the

i

th fixed variable.

Constraint:

1 \leq fvid [i - 1] \leq ncol

, for

i = 1, 2, \dots, nfv

10: $fint$ – IntegerInput

On entry: flag indicating whether a fixed intercept is included (

fint = 1

Constraint:

fint = 0

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11: $nrv$ – IntegerInput

On entry: the number of independent variables in the model which are to be treated as being random.

Constraints:

$0 \leq nrv < ncol$ ;
$nrv + rint > 0$ .

12: $rvid [nrv]$ – const IntegerInput

On entry: the columns of the data matrix

dat

holding the random independent variables with

rvid [i - 1]

holding the column number corresponding to the

i

th random variable.

Constraint:

1 \leq rvid [i - 1] \leq ncol

, for

i = 1, 2, \dots, nrv

13: $nvpr$ – IntegerInput

On entry: if

rint = 1

and

svid \neq 0

, nvpr is the number of variance components being

estimated - 2

, (

g - 1

), else

nvpr = g

nrv = 0

nvpr

is not referenced.

Constraint: if

nrv \neq 0

1 \leq nvpr \leq nrv

14: $vpr [nrv]$ – const IntegerInput

On entry:

vpr [i - 1]

holds a flag indicating the variance of the

i

th random variable. The variance of the

i

th random variable is

σ_{j}^{2}

, where

j = vpr [i - 1] + 1

rint = 1

and

svid \neq 0

and

j = vpr [i - 1]

otherwise. Random variables with the same value of

j

are assumed to be taken from the same distribution.

Constraint:

1 \leq vpr [i - 1] \leq nvpr

, for

i = 1, 2, \dots, nrv

15: $rint$ – IntegerInput

On entry: flag indicating whether a random intercept is included (

rint = 1

svid = 0

, rint is not referenced.

Constraint:

rint = 0

1

16: $svid$ – IntegerInput

On entry: the column of dat holding the subject variable.

svid = 0

, no subject variable is used.

Specifying a subject variable is equivalent to specifying the interaction between that variable and all of the random-effects. Letting the notation

Z_{1} \times Z_{S}

denote the interaction between variables

Z_{1}

and

Z_{S}

, fitting a model with

rint = 0

, random-effects

Z_{1} + Z_{2}

and subject variable

Z_{S}

is equivalent to fitting a model with random-effects

Z_{1} \times Z_{S} + Z_{2} \times Z_{S}

and no subject variable. If

rint = 1

the model is equivalent to fitting

Z_{S} + Z_{1} \times Z_{S} + Z_{2} \times Z_{S}

and no subject variable.

Constraint:

0 \leq svid \leq ncol

17: $gamma [nvpr + 2]$ – doubleInput/Output

On entry: holds the initial values of the variance components,

γ_{0}

, with

gamma [i - 1]

the initial value for

σ_{i}^{2} / σ_{R}^{2}

, for

i = 1, 2, \dots, g

. If

rint = 1

and

svid \neq 0

g = nvpr + 1

, else

g = nvpr

gamma [0] = - 1.0

, the remaining elements of gamma are ignored and the initial values for the variance components are estimated from the data using MIVQUE0.

On exit:

gamma [i - 1]

, for

i = 1, 2, \dots, g

, holds the final estimate of

σ_{i}^{2}

and

gamma [g]

holds the final estimate for

σ_{R}^{2}

Constraint:

gamma [0] = - 1.0 or gamma [i - 1] \geq 0.0

, for

i = 1, 2, \dots, g

18: $nff$ – Integer *Output

On exit: the number of fixed effects estimated (i.e., the number of columns,

p

, in the design matrix

X

19: $nrf$ – Integer *Output

On exit: the number of random effects estimated (i.e., the number of columns,

q

, in the design matrix

Z

20: $df$ – Integer *Output

On exit: the degrees of freedom.

21: $ml$ – double *Output

On exit:

- 2 l_{R} (\hat{γ})

where

l_{R}

is the log of the maximum likelihood calculated at

\hat{γ}

, the estimated variance components returned in gamma.

22: $lb$ – IntegerInput

On entry: the size of the array b.

Constraint:

lb \geq fint + \sum_{i = 1}^{nfv} \max (levels [fvid [i - 1] - 1] - 1, 1) + L_{S} \times (rint + \sum_{i = 1}^{nrv} levels [rvid [i - 1] - 1])

where

L_{S} = levels [svid - 1]

svid \neq 0

and

1

otherwise.

23: $b [lb]$ – doubleOutput

On exit: the parameter estimates,

(β, ν)

, with the first nff elements of b containing the fixed effect parameter estimates,

β

and the next nrf elements of b containing the random effect parameter estimates,

ν

Fixed effects

fint = 1

b [0]

contains the estimate of the fixed intercept. Let

L_{i}

denote the number of levels associated with the

i

th fixed variable, that is

L_{i} = levels [fvid [i - 1] - 1]

. Define

if $fint = 1$ , $F_{1} = 2$ else if $fint = 0$ , $F_{1} = 1$ ;
$F_{i + 1} = F_{i} + \max (L_{i} - 1, 1)$ , $i \geq 1$ .

Then for

i = 1, 2, \dots, nfv

if $L_{i} > 1$ , $b [F_{i} + j - 3]$ contains the parameter estimate for the $j$ th level of the $i$ th fixed variable, for $j = 2, 3, \dots, L_{i}$ ;
if $L_{i} \leq 1$ , $b [F_{i} - 1]$ contains the parameter estimate for the $i$ th fixed variable.

Random effects

Redefining

L_{i}

to denote the number of levels associated with the

i

th random variable, that is

L_{i} = levels [rvid [i - 1] - 1]

. Define

if $rint = 1$ , $R_{1} = 2$ else if $rint = 0$ , $R_{1} = 1$ ;
$R_{i + 1} = R_{i} + L_{i}$ , $i \geq 1$ .

Then for

i = 1, 2, \dots, nrv

if svid=0,
- if $L_{i} > 1$ , $b [nff + R_{i} + j - 2]$ contains the parameter estimate for the $j$ th level of the $i$ th random variable, for $j = 1, 2, \dots, L_{i}$ ;
- if $L_{i} \leq 1$ , $b [nff + R_{i} - 1]$ contains the parameter estimate for the $i$ th random variable;
if svid ≠ 0 ,
- let $L_{S}$ denote the number of levels associated with the subject variable, that is $L_{S} = levels [svid - 1]$ ;
- if $L_{i} > 1$ , $b [nff + (s - 1) L_{S} + R_{i} + j - 2]$ contains the parameter estimate for the interaction between the $s$ th level of the subject variable and the $j$ th level of the $i$ th random variable, for $s = 1, 2, \dots, L_{S}$ and $j = 1, 2, \dots, L_{i}$ ;
- if $L_{i} \leq 1$ , $b [nff + (s - 1) L_{S} + R_{i} - 1]$ contains the parameter estimate for the interaction between the $s$ th level of the subject variable and the $i$ th random variable, for $s = 1, 2, \dots, L_{S}$ ;
- if $rint = 1$ , $b [nff]$ contains the estimate of the random intercept.

24: $se [lb]$ – doubleOutput

On exit: the standard errors of the parameter estimates given in b.

25: $maxit$ – IntegerInput

On entry: the maximum number of iterations.

maxit < 0

, the default value of

100

is used.

maxit = 0

, the parameter estimates

(β, ν)

and corresponding standard errors are calculated based on the value of

γ_{0}

supplied in gamma.

26: $tol$ – doubleInput

On entry: the tolerance used to assess convergence.

tol \leq 0.0

, the default value of

ε^{0.7}

is used, where

ε

is the machine precision.

27: $warn$ – Integer *Output

On exit: is set to

1

if a variance component was estimated to be a negative value during the fitting process. Otherwise warn is set to

0

warn = 1

, the negative estimate is set to zero and the estimation process allowed to continue.

28: $fail$ – NagError *Input/Output

The NAG error argument (see Section 3.7 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation).

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Error Indicators and Warnings

NE_ALLOC_FAIL: Dynamic memory allocation failed.
See Section 2.3.1.2 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation for further information.
NE_BAD_PARAM: On entry, argument $〈value〉$ had an illegal value.

On entry, invalid data: categorical variable with value greater than that specified in levels.
NE_CONV: Routine failed to converge in maxit iterations: $maxit = 〈value〉$ .
NE_FAIL_TOL: Routine failed to converge to specified tolerance: $tol = 〈value〉$ .
NE_INT: On entry, $fint = 〈value〉$ .
Constraint: $fint = 0$ or $1$ .

On entry, lb too small: $lb = 〈value〉$ .

On entry, $levels [i] < 1$ , for at least one $i$ .

On entry, $n = 〈value〉$ .
Constraint: number of observations with nonzero weights must be greater than one.

On entry, $n = 〈value〉$ .
Constraint: $n \geq 1$ .

On entry, $ncol = 〈value〉$ .
Constraint: $1 \leq fvid [i] \leq ncol$ , for all $i$ .

On entry, $ncol = 〈value〉$ .
Constraint: $1 \leq rvid [i] \leq ncol$ , for all $i$ .

On entry, $ncol = 〈value〉$ .
Constraint: $ncol \geq 1$ .

On entry, $nvpr = 〈value〉$ .
Constraint: $1 \leq vpr [i] \leq nvpr$ , for all $i$ .

On entry, $rint = 〈value〉$ .
Constraint: $rint = 0$ or $1$ .
NE_INT_2: On entry, $cwid = 〈value〉$ and $ncol = 〈value〉$ .
Constraint: $0 \leq cwid \leq ncol$ and any supplied weights must be $\geq 0.0$ .

On entry, $nfv = 〈value〉$ and $ncol = 〈value〉$ .
Constraint: $0 \leq nfv < ncol$ .

On entry, $nrv = 〈value〉$ and $ncol = 〈value〉$ .
Constraint: $0 \leq nrv < ncol$ and $nrv + rint > 0$ .

On entry, $nvpr = 〈value〉$ and $nrv = 〈value〉$ .
Constraint: $0 \leq nvpr \leq nrv$ and ( $nrv \leq 0$ or $nvpr \geq 1$ ).

On entry, $svid = 〈value〉$ and $ncol = 〈value〉$ .
Constraint: $0 \leq svid \leq ncol$ .

On entry, $tddat = 〈value〉$ and $ncol = 〈value〉$ .
Constraint: $tddat \geq$ or $ncol$ .

On entry, $yvid = 〈value〉$ and $ncol = 〈value〉$ .
Constraint: $1 \leq yvid \leq ncol$ .
NE_INTERNAL_ERROR: An internal error has occurred in this function. Check the function call and any array sizes. If the call is correct then please contact NAG for assistance.
See Section 2.7.6 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation for further information.
NE_NO_LICENCE: Your licence key may have expired or may not have been installed correctly.
See Section 2.7.5 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation for further information.
NE_REAL: On entry, $gamma [i] < 0$ , for at least one $i$ .
NE_ZERO_DOF_ERROR: Degrees of freedom $< 1$ : $df = 〈value〉$ .

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Accuracy

The accuracy of the results can be adjusted through the use of the tol argument.

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Parallelism and Performance

nag_ml_mixed_regsn (g02jbc) is threaded by NAG for parallel execution in multithreaded implementations of the NAG Library.

nag_ml_mixed_regsn (g02jbc) makes calls to BLAS and/or LAPACK routines, which may be threaded within the vendor library used by this implementation. Consult the documentation for the vendor library for further information.

Please consult the x06 Chapter Introduction for information on how to control and interrogate the OpenMP environment used within this function. Please also consult the Users' Note for your implementation for any additional implementation-specific information.

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Further Comments

Wherever possible any block structure present in the design matrix

Z

should be modelled through a subject variable, specified via svid, rather than being explicitly entered into dat.

nag_ml_mixed_regsn (g02jbc) uses an iterative process to fit the specified model and for some problems this process may fail to converge (see

fail . code =

NE_CONV or NE_FAIL_TOL). If the function fails to converge then the maximum number of iterations (see maxit) or tolerance (see tol) may require increasing; try a different starting estimate in gamma. Alternatively, the model can be fit using restricted maximum likelihood (see nag_reml_mixed_regsn (g02jac)) or using the noniterative MIVQUE0.

To fit the model just using MIVQUE0, the first element of gamma should be set to

- 1

and maxit should be set to zero.

Although the quasi-Newton algorithm used in nag_ml_mixed_regsn (g02jbc) tends to require more iterations before converging compared to the Newton–Raphson algorithm recommended by Wolfinger et al. (1994), it does not require the second derivatives of the likelihood function to be calculated and consequentially takes significantly less time per iteration.

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Example

The following dataset is taken from Stroup (1989) and arises from a balanced split-plot design with the whole plots arranged in a randomized complete block-design.

In this example the full design matrix for the random independent variable,

Z

, is given by:

Z = (\begin{matrix} 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 1 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 1 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 1 \\ 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 1 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 1 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 1 \end{matrix})

= (\begin{matrix} A & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & A & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & A & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & A \\ A & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & A & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & A & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & A \end{matrix}),

(1)

where

A = (\begin{matrix} 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 1 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 1 & 0 & 0 & 1 \end{matrix}) .

The block structure evident in (1) is modelled by specifying a four-level subject variable, taking the values

\{1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4\}

. The first column of

1 s

is added to

A

by setting

rint = 1

. The remaining columns of

A

are specified by a three level factor, taking the values,

\{1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, \dots\}

NAG C Library Function Document

nag_ml_mixed_regsn (g02jbc)

▸▿ Contents

1 Purpose

2 Specification

3 Description

4 References

5 Arguments

6 Error Indicators and Warnings

7 Accuracy

8 Parallelism and Performance

9 Further Comments

10 Example

10.1 Program Text

10.2 Program Data

10.3 Program Results

1

Purpose

2

Specification

3

Description

4

References

5

Arguments

6

Error Indicators and Warnings

7

Accuracy

8

Parallelism and Performance

9

Further Comments

10

Example

10.1

Program Text

10.2

Program Data

10.3

Program Results