vpredict {asreml}R Documentation

Functions of variance components

Description

Calculates means and approximated standard errors from functions of variance components from an asreml object.

Usage

vpredict(object, xform, ...)

Arguments

object

An asreml object.

xform

A two-sided formula, where the left-hand side labels the function name. The right-hand side defines the function to calculate as an algebraic expression.

Details

The standard error of the computed value is approximated using the Delta method with the function deriv(), which calculates algebraic derivatives for a wide range of expressions. Any of the variance components to be included in the function are represented as: "V1", "V2", "V3", ... in the order they appear in object$vparameters. Parentheses, and simple functions like log, exp, sqrt are also allowed. Results are always presented in sigma scale.

Value

A single-row data frame with components:


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