Prepare working covariance arguments — working_covariance_args • LSVCMM

Prepare working covariance arguments

Usage

working_covariance_args(args)

Arguments

args: A list of arguments. See See *Details*.

Value

A list of arguments

Details

The following arguments are supported:

name: The working covariance function. Currently, only "compound_symmetry" is supported.
estimate: Whether to estimate the parameters. Must be TRUE (default) or FALSE.
ratio: The ratio of the variance of the random effects to the variance of the error term. If negative, the ratio is estimated to `log(n)`.
correlation: The correlation for AR(1).