me</b> package or function <code>lmer()</code> from the
    <b>lme4</b> package.</p></dd>

<dt id="arg-weights">weights<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#arg-weights"></a></dt>
<dd><p>a numeric vector of weights. These are simple multipliers on the
  log-likelihood contributions of each group/cluster, i.e., we presume that there are multiple
  replicates of each group/cluster denoted by the weights. The length of `weights` need to
  be equal to the number of independent groups/clusters in the data