Thanks for your comments. I hard disk meltdown has slowed me down somewhat, but I am now back online.
I have reposted to the ME-list, and requested SAS output from my colleagues. I will update the thread again as soon I know more. Thanks, Andreas -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Autoregressive-covariance-structure-for-lme-object-and-R-SAS-differences-in-model-output-tp4703103p4703396.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

