Specifying Control Values for lme Fit

lmeControl {nlme}

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Specifying Control Values for lme Fit

Description

The values supplied in the lmeControl() call replace the defaults, and a list with all settings (i.e., values for all possible arguments) is returned. The returned list is used as the control argument to the lme function.

Usage

lmeControl(maxIter = 50, msMaxIter = 50, tolerance = 1e-6, niterEM = 25,
           msMaxEval = 200,
	   msTol = 1e-7, msVerbose = FALSE,
           returnObject = FALSE, gradHess = TRUE, apVar = TRUE,
	   .relStep = .Machine$double.eps^(1/3), minAbsParApVar = 0.05,
           opt = c("nlminb", "optim"),
	   optimMethod = "BFGS", natural = TRUE,
	   sigma = NULL,
           allow.n.lt.q = FALSE,
           ...)

Arguments

`maxIter`	maximum number of iterations for the `lme` optimization algorithm. Default is `50`.
`msMaxIter`	maximum number of iterations for the optimization step inside the `lme` optimization. Default is `50`.
`tolerance`	tolerance for the convergence criterion in the `lme` algorithm. Default is `1e-6`.
`niterEM`	number of iterations for the EM algorithm used to refine the initial estimates of the random effects variance-covariance coefficients. Default is `25`.
`msMaxEval`	maximum number of evaluations of the objective function permitted for nlminb. Default is `200`.
`msTol`	tolerance for the convergence criterion on the first iteration when `optim` is used. Default is `1e-7`.
`msVerbose`	a logical value passed as the `trace` argument to `nlminb` or `optim`. Default is `FALSE`.
`returnObject`	a logical value indicating whether the fitted object should be returned with a `warning` (instead of an error via `stop()`) when the maximum number of iterations is reached without convergence of the algorithm. Default is `FALSE`.
`gradHess`	a logical value indicating whether numerical gradient vectors and Hessian matrices of the log-likelihood function should be used in the internal optimization. This option is only available when the correlation structure (`corStruct`) and the variance function structure (`varFunc`) have no "varying" parameters and the `pdMat` classes used in the random effects structure are `pdSymm` (general positive-definite), `pdDiag` (diagonal), `pdIdent` (multiple of the identity), or `pdCompSymm` (compound symmetry). Default is `TRUE`.
`apVar`	a logical value indicating whether the approximate covariance matrix of the variance-covariance parameters should be calculated. Default is `TRUE`.
`.relStep`	relative step for numerical derivatives calculations. Default is `.Machine$double.eps^(1/3)`.
`opt`	the optimizer to be used, either `"nlminb"` (the default) or `"optim"`.
`optimMethod`	character - the optimization method to be used with the `optim` optimizer. The default is `"BFGS"`. An alternative is `"L-BFGS-B"`.
`minAbsParApVar`	numeric value - minimum absolute parameter value in the approximate variance calculation. The default is `0.05`.
`natural`	a logical value indicating whether the `pdNatural` parametrization should be used for general positive-definite matrices (`pdSymm`) in `reStruct`, when the approximate covariance matrix of the estimators is calculated. Default is `TRUE`.
`sigma`	optionally a positive number to fix the residual error at. If `NULL`, as by default, or `0`, sigma is estimated.
`allow.n.lt.q`	`logical` indicating if it is ok to have less observations than random effects for each group. The default, `FALSE` signals an error; if `NA`, such a situation only gives a warning, as in nlme versions prior to 2019; if true, no message is given at all.

...

further named control arguments to be passed, depending on opt, to nlminb (those from abs.tol down) or optim (those except trace and maxit; reltol is used only from the second iteration).

Value

a list with components for each of the possible arguments.

Author(s)

José Pinheiro and Douglas Bates bates@stat.wisc.edu; the sigma option: Siem Heisterkamp and Bert van Willigen.

Examples

# decrease the maximum number iterations in the ms call and
# request that information on the evolution of the ms iterations be printed
str(lCtr <- lmeControl(msMaxIter = 20, msVerbose = TRUE))
## This should always work:
do.call(lmeControl, lCtr)

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