sigma {lme4} | R Documentation

## Extract Residual Standard Deviation 'Sigma'

### Description

Extract the estimated standard deviation of the errors, the “residual standard deviation” (also misnamed the “residual standard error”), from a fitted model.

### Usage

    ## S3 method for class 'merMod'
    sigma(object, ...)

### Arguments

`object` | a fitted model.
`...` | additional, optional arguments, passed from or to methods. (None currently in our two methods.)

### Details

Package lme4 provides methods for mixed-effects models of class `merMod` and lists of linear models, `lmList4`.

### Value

Typically a number, the estimated standard deviation of the errors (“residual standard deviation”) for Gaussian models, and - less interpretably - the square root of the residual deviance per degree of freedom in more general models.

### Examples

    methods(sigma)# from R 3.3.0 on, shows methods from pkgs 'stats' *and* 'lme4'

[Package lme4 version 1.1-12 Index]