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ASReml-S reference manual - VSN International

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8.9 Balanced longitudinal data - Random coefficients and cubic smoothing splines 118var (vec(U)) = Σ ⊗ I 5where Σ is a 2 × 2 symmetric positive definite matrix. Non smooth variation can bemodelled at the overall mean (across trees) level and this is achieved by including thefactor dev(x) as a random term.The full model is:> orange1.asr orange1.asr summary(orange1.asr)$varcompgamma component std.error z.ratio constraintlink(~ x):Tree!Intercept.var 4.789034e+00 3.044970e+01 2.457813e+01 1.238894 Positivelink(~ x):Tree!x.var 9.392257e-05 5.971797e-04 4.240625e-04 1.408235 Positivespl(x) 1.004896e+02 6.389346e+02 4.131293e+02 1.546573 PositiveTree:spl(x) 1.116746e+00 7.100507e+00 4.935166e+00 1.438757 PositiveR!variance 1.000000e+00 6.358213e+00 3.652341e+00 1.740860 PositiveThe fitted curves from this model are shown in Figure 8.14. The fit is unacceptablebecause the spline has picked up too much curvature, suggesting there may be systematicnon-smooth variation at the overall level. This can be formally examined by includingthe dev(x) term as a random effect.

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