reconf: Confidence Intervals for Random Effect Parameters in Linear
Mixed Models
Computes score-based confidence intervals and hypothesis tests
for variance and covariance parameters of random effects in linear mixed
models fitted with 'lme4'. The intervals invert a profile score
statistic on the variance-covariance scale, with nuisance parameters
estimated on an extended parameter set. The intervals have near-nominal
coverage uniformly in the parameter, including near the boundary of the
parameter space, where Wald and likelihood ratio intervals can be
unreliable. The methods are described in Shedden
and Ekvall (2026) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2610.04181>, building on Ekvall and
Bottai (2026) <doi:10.1093/biomet/asaf079>, Zhang, Ekvall, and Molstad
(2025) <doi:10.1093/biomet/asaf010>, and Ekvall and Bottai (2022)
<doi:10.1214/22-AOS2177>.
| Version: |
0.2.0 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 3.5.0) |
| Imports: |
Matrix (≥ 1.5-0), lme4 (≥ 1.1-8), Rcpp, trust, methods, generics |
| LinkingTo: |
Rcpp, RcppEigen |
| Suggests: |
testthat (≥ 3.0.0), numDeriv, knitr, rmarkdown |
| Published: |
2026-10-21 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.reconf (may not be active yet) |
| Author: |
Karl Oskar Ekvall [aut, cre, cph],
Yiqiao Zhang [ctb],
Matias Shedden [ctb] |
| Maintainer: |
Karl Oskar Ekvall <k.o.ekvall at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/koekvall/reconf/issues |
| License: |
MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: |
https://github.com/koekvall/reconf |
| NeedsCompilation: |
yes |
| Language: |
en-US |
| Citation: |
reconf citation info |
| Materials: |
README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: |
reconf results |
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