pooledSD {nlme} | R Documentation

## Extract Pooled Standard Deviation

### Description

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.

### Usage

    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(s)

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

### See Also

`lmList`, `lm`

### Examples

    fm1 <- lmList(Orthodont)
    pooledSD(fm1)

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