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7 Command file: Specifying variance structures 136Check the orderwill check the overall size, it does not check that the order of effects matches thestructure definition so the user must be careful to get this right. Check that theterms are conformable by considering the order of the fitted effects and ensuringthe first term of the direct product corresponds to the outer factor in the nestingof the effects. Two examples are• random regressions where we want a covariance between intercept and slope.!r !{ animal animal.time !}.animal 22 0 US 3 -.5 2animalis equivalent (though not identical because of the scaling differences) to.!r pol(time,1).animal.pol(time,1).animal 2pol(time,1) 0 US 1 -.1 .2animal• maternal/direct genetic covariancelambid !Psireid !Pdamid !P.wwt ywt ∼ Trait Trait.sex !r !{ Trait.lambid at(Trait,2).damid !}.Trait.lambid 23 0 US1.3 # Var(wwt D)1.0 2.2 # Cov(wwt D,ywt D) Var(ywt D)-.1 -.2 0.8 # Cov(wwt D,wwt M) Cov(ywt D,wwt M) Var(wwt M)lambid 0 AINV # AINV explicitly requests to use A inverse

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