ranef {saeTrafo}

Extract random effects of saeTrafo object

Description

Method ranef.NER extracts the random effects from an saeTrafo object.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'NER'
ranef(object, ...)

## S3 method for class 'NER'
random.effects(object, ...)

Arguments

object

an object of type "NER".

...

additional arguments that are not used in this method.

Details

The alias random.effects can also be used instead of ranef. The generic function ranef is imported from package nlme and re-exported to make the S3-methods available, even though the nlme package itself is not loaded or attached. For default documentation, see random.effects.

Value

A vector containing the estimated random effects at domain level is returned.

See Also

NER_Trafo, random.effects

Examples

# Example to extract random effects

# Load Data
data("eusilcA_smp")
data("pop_area_size")
data("pop_mean")
data("pop_cov")

# Nested error regression model
NER_model <- NER_Trafo(fixed = eqIncome ~ gender + eqsize + cash +
                       self_empl + unempl_ben + age_ben + surv_ben +
                       sick_ben + dis_ben + rent + fam_allow + house_allow +
                       cap_inv + tax_adj,
                       smp_domains = "district",
                       pop_area_size = pop_area_size,
                       pop_mean = pop_mean, pop_cov = pop_cov,
                       smp_data = eusilcA_smp)

ranef(NER_model)