Consider the output for the inroductory "Rail" example in "Mixed Effects Models in S and S-PLUS" by Pinheiro and Bates:
> summary(fm1Rail.lme) Linear mixed-effects model fit by REML Data: Rail AIC BIC logLik 128.177 130.6766 -61.0885 Random effects: Formula: ~1 | Rail (Intercept) Residual StdDev: 24.80547 4.020779 Fixed effects: travel ~ 1 Value Std.Error DF t-value p-value (Intercept) 66.5 10.17104 12 6.538173 0 Standardized Within-Group Residuals: Min Q1 Med Q3 Max -1.61882658 -0.28217671 0.03569328 0.21955784 1.61437744 Number of Observations: 18 Number of Groups: 6 I want to extract the variance components sigma = 4.020779 (the within component) and sigma_b = 24.80547 (the between component). I can get sigma easily: sigma <- fm1Rail.lme$sigma but how can I get sigma_b ? Cheers, Murray Jorgensen -- Dr Murray Jorgensen http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax 7 838 4155 Phone +64 7 838 4773 wk Home +64 7 825 0441 Mobile 021 1395 862 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html