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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>R: Initialize varFunc Object</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="R.css" /> </head><body> <table width="100%" summary="page for Initialize.varFunc {nlme}"><tr><td>Initialize.varFunc {nlme}</td><td style="text-align: right;">R Documentation</td></tr></table> <h2>Initialize varFunc Object</h2> <h3>Description</h3> <p>This method initializes <code>object</code> by evaluating its associated covariate(s) and grouping factor, if any is present, in <code>data</code>; determining if the covariate(s) need to be updated when the values of the coefficients associated with <code>object</code> change; initializing the log-likelihood and the weights associated with <code>object</code>; and assigning initial values for the coefficients in <code>object</code>, if none were present. The covariate(s) will only be initialized if no update is needed when <code>coef(object)</code> changes. </p> <h3>Usage</h3> <pre> ## S3 method for class 'varFunc' Initialize(object, data, ...) </pre> <h3>Arguments</h3> <table summary="R argblock"> <tr valign="top"><td><code>object</code></td> <td> <p>an object inheriting from class <code>"<a href="varFunc.html">varFunc</a>"</code>, representing a variance function structure.</p> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td><code>data</code></td> <td> <p>a data frame in which to evaluate the variables named in <code>formula(object)</code>. </p> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td><code>...</code></td> <td> <p>this argument is included to make this method compatible with the generic.</p> </td></tr> </table> <h3>Value</h3> <p>an initialized object with the same class as <code>object</code> representing a variance function structure. </p> <h3>Author(s)</h3> <p>José Pinheiro and Douglas Bates <a href="mailto:bates@stat.wisc.edu">bates@stat.wisc.edu</a></p> <h3>See Also</h3> <p><code><a href="Initialize.html">Initialize</a></code> </p> <h3>Examples</h3> <pre> vf1 <- varPower( form = ~ age | Sex ) vf1 <- Initialize( vf1, Orthodont ) </pre> <hr /><div style="text-align: center;">[Package <em>nlme</em> version 3.1-139 <a href="00Index.html">Index</a>]</div> </body></html>