lme4 (version 1.1-7)

refitML: Refit a model by maximum likelihood criterion

Description

Refit a model using the maximum likelihood criterion

Usage

refitML(x, ...)
  ## S3 method for class 'merMod':
refitML(x, optimizer = "bobyqa", ...)

Arguments

x

a fitted model, usually of class "lmerMod", to be refit according to the maximum likelihood criterion

...

optional additional parameters. None are used at present.

optimizer

a string indicating the optimizer to be used.

Value

• an object like x but fit by maximum likelihood

Details

This function is primarily used to get a maximum likelihood fit of a linear mixed-effects model for an anova comparison.