Estimates a common slope from bivariate data for several independent groups. Called by slope.com.

b.com.est(z, n, method, lambda = 1, res.df)

Arguments

z

Variances and covariances of each group.

n

Sample sizes of each group.

method

See slope.com for details.

lambda

Error variance ration (implied by choice of method).

res.df

Residual degrees of freedom, for each group.

See also

Author

Warton, D. David.Warton@unsw.edu.au and J. Ormerod