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. 2011 May 23;11:77. doi: 10.1186/1471-2288-11-77

Table 1.

Extra abilities of different packages

Package Program/function/option Link function Obtaining the random effects Handling ordinal proportional odds model Modeling cross-classified model Other than normal random effects

Probit model Log
(-log) model
R LME4 X X
MCMCglmm X X X* X

Stata GLLAMM X X X X

MIXOR MIXOR X X X

SAS NLMIXED X X X X
GLIMMIX X X X X X
MCMC X X X

MLwiN [R]IGLS or MCMC X X X X X

WinBUGS MCMC X X X X X X

*: only probit model is available in MCMCglmm for ordinal model.