Re: residual covariance (repeated measures)

Dear craig
You wrote
 
I am trying to figure out the correct code in R to a repeated measure
analysis on unequal numbers of observations with 1 trait measured on 2
occasions. 417 plants were assessed in year 2 and 590 plants were assessed
in year 2. 81 plants were assessed in both years. We are trying to build a
var-cov matrix at both G and R, with a relationship matrix at G (about 15
parents used in crossing scheme).
 
The data is listed in long format and sorted by Year, i.e.
Year 1 data
Year 2 data
 
I am wondering, is it possible to specify a multivariate rcov matrix
without having to put dummy records in for both traits to balance the data
set?
 
When I use
 
rcov=~diag(year):units
 
or
 
rcov=~diag(year):ide(Ind)
 
I get errors from ASreml expecting balanced data set
 

I reply
With the little information I have, ie no background etc which is always
scary to give advice, I would trick ASReml to fit G and R both as G
structures, and fix S2/dispersion to a very small number, eg .0001. This
is simple and quick and then you can specify
both ped(tree) and residual as G structures.

Eg two years, aka two traits has

random=~us(trait):ped(tree) + us(triat):tree,
family=asreml.gaussian(dispersion=.0001),....
where trait:tree and units are equivalent in the sense that each unit is
uniquely specified by the tree and the trait combo

HTH
 

warm regards

Brian Cullis|Research Leader, Biometrics &
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Received on Thu Sep 23 2009 - 10:20:05 EST