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Provides a comprehensive summary of a fitted LAME (Longitudinal Additive and Multiplicative Effects) model, including parameter estimates, standard errors, confidence intervals, and model diagnostics.

Usage

# S3 method for class 'lame'
summary(object, ...)

Arguments

object

an object of class "lame", typically the result of fitting a longitudinal AME model using the lame function

...

additional parameters (currently not used)

Value

A list of class "summary.lame" containing:

call

The original function call

beta

Matrix of regression coefficient estimates and statistics

variance

Matrix of variance component estimates

n.periods

Number of time periods in the longitudinal data

Details

The summary includes:

Regression coefficients

Point estimates, standard errors, z-values, p-values, and 95% confidence intervals for dyadic, sender, and receiver covariates

Variance components

Estimates and standard errors for:

va

Variance of additive sender/row effects

cab

Covariance between sender and receiver effects

vb

Variance of additive receiver/column effects

rho

Dyadic correlation (reciprocity)

ve

Residual variance

Author

Peter Hoff, Cassy Dorff, Shahryar Minhas