lcMethodFlexmix: Method interface to flexmix()

In philips-software/latrend: A Framework for Clustering Longitudinal Data

Method interface to flexmix()

Description

Wrapper to the flexmix() method from the flexmix package.

Usage

lcMethodFlexmix(
  formula,
  formula.mb = ~1,
  time = getOption("latrend.time"),
  id = getOption("latrend.id"),
  nClusters = 2,
  ...
)

Arguments

formula	A formula specifying the model.
formula.mb	A formula specifying the class membership model. By default, an intercept-only model is used.
time	The name of the time variable.
id	The name of the trajectory identifier variable.
nClusters	The number of clusters to estimate.
...	Arguments passed to flexmix::flexmix. The following arguments are ignored: data, concomitant, k.

References

\insertRef

gruen2008flexmixlatrend

See Also

Other lcMethod package interfaces: lcMethodFlexmixGBTM

Examples

data(latrendData)
if (require("flexmix")) {
  method <- lcMethodFlexmix(Y ~ Time, id = "Id", time = "Time", nClusters = 3)
  model <- latrend(method, latrendData)
}

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