gnlsStruct               package:nlme               R Documentation

Generalized Nonlinear Least Squares Structure

Description:

     A generalized nonlinear least squares structure is a list of model
     components representing different sets of parameters in the
     nonlinear  model. A 'gnlsStruct'  may contain 'corStruct' and
     'varFunc' objects. 'NULL' arguments are not included in the
     'gnlsStruct' list.

Usage:

     gnlsStruct(corStruct, varStruct)

Arguments:

corStruct: an optional 'corStruct' object, representing a correlation
          structure. Default is 'NULL'.

varStruct: an optional 'varFunc' object, representing a variance
          function structure. Default is 'NULL'.

Value:

     a list of model variance-covariance components determining the
     parameters to be estimated for the associated nonlinear model.

Author(s):

     Jose Pinheiro Jose.Pinheiro@pharma.novartis.com and Douglas Bates
     bates@stat.wisc.edu

See Also:

     'gnls', 'corClasses', 'residuals.gnlsStruct' 'varFunc'

Examples:

     gnls1 <- gnlsStruct(corAR1(), varPower())

