use an ox cleaver to kill a chicken [Software]

posted by yicaoting  – NanKing, China, 2011-11-06 16:25 (4917 d 00:35 ago) – Posting: # 7623
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Dear HS and ElMaestro!

❝ No optimization here, but lower and upper are obtained by REML (as ElMaestro pointed out). Default settings in PHX/WNL are maximum 50 iterations, estimability tolerance 10-5, singularity tolerance 10-10, convergence criterion 10-10. BTW, with our dataset convergence is reached in the first iteration [-2×REML log(likelihood) 4.8289659].


Sorry fo my unknowing of WNL's calculation of lower and upper using REML.

To do such a simple anti-log calc, how tired WNL is!

Let's take a rest:
In Chinese, there is a proverb “Why use an ox cleaver to kill a chicken?”. It means a butchers knife used for killing cows is not necessary in order to kill a chicken. It then became used as a metaphor to express that a small matter doesn't require big effort.
I believe that there is a counterpart in English.

Thank HS and ElMaestro for your patient explanation.

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