Dim.corSpatial             package:nlme             R Documentation

Dimensions of a corSpatial Object

Description:

     if 'groups' is missing, it returns the 'Dim' attribute of
     'object'; otherwise, calculates the dimensions associated with the
     grouping factor.

Usage:

     ## S3 method for class 'corSpatial':
     Dim(object, groups, ...)

Arguments:

  object: an object inheriting from class 'corSpatial', representing a
          spatial correlation structure.

  groups: an optional factor defining the grouping of the observations;
          observations within a group are correlated and observations
          in different groups are uncorrelated.

     ...: further arguments to be passed to or from methods.

Value:

     a list with components: 

       N: length of 'groups'

       M: number of groups

 spClass: an integer representing the spatial correlation class; 0 =
          user defined class, 1 = 'corSpher', 2 = 'corExp', 3 =
          'corGaus', 4 = 'corLin'

sumLenSq: sum of the squares of the number of observations per group

     len: an integer vector with the number of observations per group

   start: an integer vector with the starting position for the distance
          vectors in each group, beginning from zero

Author(s):

     Jose Pinheiro Jose.Pinheiro@pharma.novartis.com and Douglas Bates
     bates@stat.wisc.edu

See Also:

     'Dim', 'Dim.corStruct'

Examples:

     data(Orthodont)
     Dim(corGaus(), getGroups(Orthodont))

