bdsBlock {bdsmatrix}

Block diagonal matrices.

Description

Create a block-diagonal matrix of ones.

Usage

bdsBlock(id, group)

Arguments

id

the identifier list. This will become the dimnames of the final matrix, and must be a set of unique values. It's length determines the dimension of the final matrix

group

a vector giving the grouping structure. All rows/cols belonging to a given group will form a block of 1's in the final matrix.

Value

a block-diagonal matrix of class bdsmatrix

See Also

bdsmatrix, bdsI

Examples

id    <- letters[1:10]
group <- c(1,1,3,2,3,3,2,3,2,4)
bdsBlock(id, group)
## Not run: 
    a b d g i c e f h j 
  a 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  b 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  d 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
  g 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
  i 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
  c 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0
  e 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0
  f 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0
  h 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0
  j 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

# Create the matrices for a sparse nested fit of family within city
group <- paste(mydata$city, mydata$family, sep='/')
mat1 <- bdsI(group)
mat2 <- bdsBlock(group, mydata$city)

fit <- coxme(Surv(time, status) ~ age + sex + (1|group), data=mydata,
               varlist=list(mat1, mat2))

## End(Not run)