Summarize a pdMat Object

Usage

summary(object, structName, noCorrelation)

Arguments

object an object inheriting from class code{pdMat}, representing a positive definite matrix.
structName an optional character string with a description of the pdMat class. Default depends on the method function: "Blocked" for pdBlocked, "Compound Symmetry" for pdCompSymm, "Diagonal" for pdDiag, "Multiple of an Identity" for pdIdent, "General Positive-Definite, Natural Parametrization" for pdNatural, "General Positive-Definite" for pdSymm, and data.class(object) for pdMat.
noCorrelation an optional logical value indicating whether correlations are to be printed in print.summary.pdMat. Default depends on the method function: FALSE for pdDiag and pdIdent, and TRUE for all other classes.

Description

Attributes structName and noCorrelation, with the values of the corresponding arguments to the method function, are appended to object and its class is changed to summary.pdMat.

Value

an object similar to object, with additional attributes structName and noCorrelation, inheriting from class summary.pdMat.

Author(s)

Jose Pinheiro and Douglas Bates

See Also

print.summary.pdMat, pdMat

Examples

library(lme)
summary(pdSymm(diag(4)))

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