predict function

Prediction

predict gives empirical Bayes predictions of the response, while sigma gives the dispersion parameter.

## S3 method for class 'mhglm'
predict(object, newdata = NULL, type = c("link", "response"),
      se.fit = FALSE, na.action = na.pass, ...)

## S3 method for class 'mhglm'
sigma(object, ...)

Arguments

• object: an mhglm object
• newdata, type, se.fit, na.action: these arguments behave as in predict.glm. See Details, below.
• ...: further arguments passed to or from other methods.

Details

The predict function gives empirical Bayes posterior mean estimates of response values. If se.fit = TRUE, then the conditional variances of the random effects are used along with the fixed effect variance-covariance matrix to estimate the standard errors.

The sigma function gives the square root of the dispersion parameter or the model; for linear models, this is the error standard deviation.

See Also

predict.

sigma, from package list("lme4").