# R: Scale for lme Optimization

lmeScale {nlme} | R Documentation

## Scale for lme Optimization

### Description

This function calculates the scales to be used for each coefficient estimated through an `nlm` optimization in the `lme` function. If all initial values are zero, the scale is set to one for all coefficients; else, the scale for a coefficient with non-zero initial value is equal to the inverse of its initial value and the scale for the coefficients with initial value equal to zero is set to the median of the non-zero initial value coefficients.

### Usage

    lmeScale(start)

### Arguments

`start` | the starting values for the coefficients to be estimated.

### Value

a vector with the scales to be used in `nlm` for estimating the coefficients.

### Author(s)

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

### See Also

`nlm`

[Package nlme version 3.1-85 Index]