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lme4 (version 1.1-35.5)

sigma: Extract Residual Standard Deviation 'Sigma'

Description

Extract the estimated standard deviation of the errors, the “residual standard deviation” (also misnamed the “residual standard error”), from a fitted model.

Usage

# S3 method for merMod
sigma(object, ...)

Value

Typically a number, the estimated standard deviation of the errors (“residual standard deviation”) for Gaussian models, and - less interpretably - the square root of the residual deviance per degree of freedom in more general models.

Arguments

object

a fitted model.

...

additional, optional arguments, passed from or to methods. (None currently in our two methods.)

Details

Package lme4 provides methods for mixed-effects models of class merMod and lists of linear models, lmList4.

Examples

Run this code
methods(sigma)# from R 3.3.0 on, shows methods from pkgs 'stats' *and* 'lme4'

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