R: Class "bmerMod" of Fitted Mixed-Effect Models

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## Class "bmerMod" of Fitted Mixed-Effect Models

### Description

The `bmerMod` class represents linear or generalized linear or nonlinear mixed-effects models with possible priors over model components. It inherits from the `merMod` class.

### Objects from the Class

Objects are created by calls to `blmer` or `bglmer`.

### Slots

A `bmerMod` object contains one additional slot beyond the base `merMod` class:

`priors`:

  A named list comprised of `covPriors`, `fixefPrior`, and `residPrior`.

In addition, the `devcomp` slot, element `cmp` includes the `penalty` item which is the computed deviance for the priors. Add this to the regular deviance to obtain the value of the objective function that is used in optimization.

### See Also

`blmer` and `bglmer`, which produce these objects.
`merMod`, from which this class inherits.

### Examples

    showClass("bmerMod")
    methods(class = "bmerMod")

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