Covariate Assign Covariate Values

Description

This function is generic; method functions can be written to handle specific classes of objects. Classes which already have methods for this function include all "varFunc" classes.

Usage

covariate(object) <- value

Arguments

object	any object with a covariate component.
value	a value to be assigned to the covariate associated with object.

Value

will depend on the method function; see the appropriate documentation.

Author(s)

José Pinheiro and Douglas Bates [email protected]

See Also

getCovariate

Examples

## see the method function documentation