Obtain predictions (BLUPs) from a splinemixmeta object — blup.splinemixmeta • splinemixmeta

Obtain predictions (BLUPs) from a splinemixmeta object

Usage

# S3 method for class 'splinemixmeta'
blup(
  object,
  se = FALSE,
  pi = FALSE,
  vcov = FALSE,
  pi.level = 0.95,
  type = "outcome",
  level,
  format,
  aggregate = "stat",
  ...
)

Arguments

object: An object of class splinemixmeta, returned by splinemixmeta().
se: Logical indicating whether to return standard errors of the predictions.
pi: Logical indicating whether to return prediction intervals.
vcov: Logical indicating whether to return the variance-covariance matrix of the predictions.
pi.level: Numeric value between 0 and 1 indicating the confidence level for the prediction intervals. Default is 0.95.
type: Character string specifying the type of prediction: "outcome" for predicted outcomes or "residual" for predicted residuals.
level: Integer indicating the random effects level for which to obtain predictions. Default is the highest level.
format: Character string specifying the format of the output: "matrix" or "list". Default depends on the number of outcomes and whether vcov is requested.
aggregate: Character string specifying how to aggregate the output when multiple outcomes are present
...: Additional arguments (currently unused).

Value

A matrix or list of predicted values (BLUPs), optionally including standard errors, prediction intervals, and variance-covariance matrices.

Details

This function is modified from mixmeta::blup.mixmeta() with acknowledgement of the original authors. It is modified to handle intermediate levels of random effects more carefully.