The pooled estimated standard deviation is obtained by adding together the residual sum of squares for each non-null element of object, dividing by the sum of the corresponding residual degrees-of-freedom, and taking the square-root.

pooledSD(object)

Arguments

object

an object inheriting from class lmList.

Value

the pooled standard deviation for the non-null elements of object, with an attribute df with the number of degrees-of-freedom used in the estimation.

Author

José Pinheiro and Douglas Bates bates@stat.wisc.edu

See also

Examples

fm1 <- lmList(Orthodont)
pooledSD(fm1)
#> [1] 1.31004
#> attr(,"df")
#> [1] 54