glmmPQL.control {BradleyTerry2}

Control Aspects of the glmmPQL Algorithm

Description

Set control variables for the glmmPQL algorithm.

Usage

glmmPQL.control(maxiter = 50, IWLSiter = 10, tol = 1e-06, trace = FALSE)

Arguments

maxiter

the maximum number of outer iterations.

IWLSiter

the maximum number of iterated weighted least squares iterations used to estimate the fixed effects, given the standard deviation of the random effects.

tol

the tolerance used to determine convergence in the IWLS iterations and over all (see details).

trace

logical: whether or not to print the score for the random effects variance at the end of each iteration.

Details

This function provides an interface to control the PQL algorithm used by BTm() for fitting Bradley Terry models with random effects.

The algorithm iterates between a series of iterated weighted least squares iterations to update the fixed effects and a single Fisher scoring iteration to update the standard deviation of the random effects.

Convergence of both the inner and outer iterations are judged by comparing the squared components of the relevant score vector with corresponding elements of the diagonal of the Fisher information matrix. If, for all components of the relevant score vector, the ratio is less than tolerance^2, or the corresponding diagonal element of the Fisher information matrix is less than 1e-20, iterations cease.

Value

A list with the arguments as components.

Author(s)

Heather Turner

References

Breslow, N. E. and Clayton, D. G. (1993), Approximate inference in Generalized Linear Mixed Models. Journal of the American Statistical Association 88(421), 9–25.

See Also

glmmPQL(), BTm()

Examples

## Variation on example(flatlizards)
result <- rep(1, nrow(flatlizards$contests))

## BTm passes arguments on to glmmPQL.control()
args(BTm)
BTmodel <- BTm(result, winner, loser, ~ throat.PC1[..] + throat.PC3[..] +
               head.length[..] + SVL[..] + (1|..),
               data = flatlizards, tol = 1e-3, trace = TRUE)
summary(BTmodel)