nlme (version 3.1-114)

qqnorm.lme: Normal Plot of Residuals or Random Effects from an lme Object

Description

Diagnostic plots for assessing the normality of residuals and random effects in the linear mixed-effects fit are obtained. The form argument gives considerable flexibility in the type of plot specification. A conditioning expression (on the right side of a | operator) always implies that different panels are used for each level of the conditioning factor, according to a Trellis display.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'lme':
qqnorm(y, form, abline, id, idLabels, grid, \dots)

Arguments

y

an object inheriting from class "lme", representing a fitted linear mixed-effects model or from class "lmList", representing a list of lm objec

form

an optional one-sided formula specifying the desired type of plot. Any variable present in the original data frame used to obtain y can be referenced. In addition, y itself can be referenced in the formula using the symb

abline

an optional numeric value, or numeric vector of length two. If given as a single value, a horizontal line will be added to the plot at that coordinate; else, if given as a vector, its values are used as the intercept and slope for a line added to

id

an optional numeric value, or one-sided formula. If given as a value, it is used as a significance level for a two-sided outlier test for the standardized residuals (random effects). Observations with absolute standardized residuals (random effec

idLabels

an optional vector, or one-sided formula. If given as a vector, it is converted to character and used to label the observations identified according to id. If given as a one-sided formula, its right hand side must evaluate to a vecto

grid

an optional logical value indicating whether a grid should be added to plot. Default is FALSE.

...

optional arguments passed to the Trellis plot function.

Value

• a diagnostic Trellis plot for assessing normality of residuals or random effects.

See Also

lme, plot.lme

Examples

fm1 <- lme(distance ~ age, Orthodont, random = ~ age | Subject)
# normal plot of standardized residuals by gender
qqnorm(fm1, ~ resid(., type = "p") | Sex, abline = c(0, 1))
# normal plots of random effects
qqnorm(fm1, ~ranef(.))