[R-sig-ME] FW: methods for glmerMod object

[Ben Bolker]

On 14-09-23 09:14 AM, Roel Straetemans wrote:

[cc'ing to r-sig-mixed-models]

> I have applied a repeated logistic regression using the glmer function
> from the package. I was wondering about all the methods that could be
> used with the produced objects. Therefore I typed:
> 
>  
> 
>> methods(class="glmerMod")
> 
> no methods were found
> 
>  

   This is an understandable confusion. Although the class() of
a fitted glmer model is "glmerMod", this is actually a superset of
the "merMod" class.  (To be honest I don't know how I would have
 figured that out if I didn't already know ...)

> methods(class="merMod")
 [1] anova.merMod*        as.function.merMod*  coef.merMod*
 [4] confint.merMod       deviance.merMod*     df.residual.merMod*
 [7] dim.merMod*          drop1.merMod*        extractAIC.merMod*
[10] family.merMod*       fitted.merMod*       fixef.merMod*
[13] formula.merMod*      hatvalues.merMod*    isGLMM.merMod*
[16] isLMM.merMod*        isNLMM.merMod*       isREML.merMod*
[19] logLik.merMod*       model.frame.merMod*  model.matrix.merMod*
[22] ngrps.merMod*        nobs.merMod*         plot.merMod*
[25] predict.merMod*      print.merMod*        profile.merMod*
[28] qqmath.merMod*       ranef.merMod*        refit.merMod*
[31] refitML.merMod*      residuals.merMod*    sigma.merMod*
[34] simulate.merMod*     summary.merMod*      terms.merMod*
[37] update.merMod*       VarCorr.merMod*      vcov.merMod
[40] weights.merMod*