AICc                    The corrected AIC
BICn                    An alternative BIC for longitudinal models
MTB                     Ten example gene transcripts from an experiment
                        investigating the _in vitro_ transcriptional
                        response to _M.Tuberculosis_
getRoughnessMatrix      Extract the roughness matrix used in an SME
                        model fit
inflammatory            Example gene transcript from an experiment on
                        children suffering from an inflammatory
                        condition
plot.sme                Visualisation of smoothing-splines
                        mixed-effects models
plotSmeDiagnostic       Diagnostic plot of the residuals for a fitted
                        smoothing-splines mixed-effects model
plotSmeModel            Visualisation of a fitted smoothing-splines
                        mixed-effects model
plotSmeRaw              Visualisation of raw data for a
                        smoothing-splines mixed-effects model
sme                     Smoothing-splines mixed-effects models
sme.data.frame          Smoothing-splines mixed-effects model fit(s)
                        from a data.frame object
sme.list                Carry out mulitple independent
                        smoothing-splines mixed-effects model fits
                        simultaneously
smeObject               Fitted sme Object
