[R] how to specify two variance effects in gls

stephenb stenka1 at go.com
Thu Aug 20 15:02:29 CEST 2009


I got the answer:

weights=varComb(varFixed(~1/n),varPower(~Age))



Bond, Stephen-2 wrote:
> 
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I have a dataset where each row has number of subjects and that gives me
> natural weights for the variance function. Additionally I see that
> variance increases with Age, which is a regressor.
> So using gls I have
> 
> 
> 
> weights=varFixed(~1/n)
> 
> but don't know how to include the extra effect of the regressor.
> Fitted values show a quadratic curve vs. age, not sure if that helps.
> 
> Thanks everybody.
> Stephen
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