[R] glmmML

[Prof Brian Ripley]

yOn Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Szentirmai Istvan wrote:

> Dear R Users,
>
> I'm looking for a similar function as step() or drop1() for glmmML models,
> but couldn't yet find any. I would appreciate if anyone could help me find
> such a function.

If you read the help for those functions, you will see that 'all' you need 
is to specify an extractAIC() function for such models.

However, I don't think even defining AIC for them is that easy (what do 
you do about zero variance parameters, for example?).

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