similar to: singular factor analysis

Hi everyone, I'm running a factor analysis on a correlation matrix with 32 rows and columns. I get the following error when I issue the command sequence mich.fac1 <- factanal(michcor, factor=1) Error in solve.default(cv) : system is computationally singular: reciprocal condition number = 3.24729e-18 I'd really appreciate an explanation for this error and a solution to the problem

Hi folks, I know, this is a fairly common question and I am really disappointed that I could not find a solution. I am trying to calculate Mahanalobis distances in a data frame, where I have several hundreds groups and several hundreds of variables. Whatever I do, however I subset it I get the "system is computationally singular: reciprocal condition number" error. I know what it means

Dear R users, i try to use function dmvnorm(x, mean, sigma, log=FALSE) from R package mvtnorm to calculate the probability of x under the multivariate normal distribution with mean equal to mean and covariance matrix sigma. I become the following Error in solve.default(cov, ...) : system is computationally singular: reciprocal condition number = 1.81093e-19 What could be the reason of it?

Hi uRsers, when inverting a 2 by 2 matrix using solve, I encountered a error message: solve.default(sigma, tol = 1e-07) : system is computationally singular: reciprocal condition number = 1.7671e-017 and then I test the determinant of this matrix: 6.341393e-06. In my program, I have a condition block that whether a matrix is invertible like this: if(det(sigma)<1e-7) return NULL;

Dear all, The background is that I'm trying to fix this bug in the geometry package: https://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1993&group_id=1149&atid=4552 Boiled down, the problem is that there exists at least one matrix X for which det(X) != 0 and for which solve(X) fails giving the error "system is computationally singular: reciprocal condition

I get this error while computing partial correlation. *Error in solve.default(Szz) : system is computationally singular: reciprocal condition number = 4.90109e-18* Why is it?Can anyone give me some idea ,how do i get rid it it? This is the function i use for calculating partial correlation. pcor.mat <- function(x,y,z,method="p",na.rm=T){ x <- c(x) y <- c(y)

Hi, I have a dataset which has around 138 variables and 30,000 cases. I am trying to calculate a mahalanobis distance matrix for them and my procedure is like this: Suppose my data is stored in mymatrix > S<-cov(mymatrix) # this is fine > D<-sapply(1:nrow(mymatrix), function(i) mahalanobis(mymatrix, mymatrix[i,], S)) Error in solve.default(cov, ...) : system is computationally

Hi all, I am trying to set up a simple path analysis in the SEM package, but I am having some trouble. I keep getting the following error message or something similar with my model, and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong: Error in solve.default(C) : system is computationally singular: reciprocal condition number = 2.2449e-20 In addition: Warning message: In sem.default(ram = ram, S = S,

Hi all, I was using the Newton-Raphson method to estimate paremeters in the model developed by my supervisor. However, when I interatively computed theta(t+1)=theta(t) - solve(H)*s (where the Hessian matrix and score vector were explicitely derived), I got the error message: Error in solve.default(H) : system is computationally singular: reciprocal condition number = 1.70568e-032. Assume my score

Hi, I'm having trouble with glmmPQL from the MASS package. I'm trying to fit a model with a binary response variable, two fixed and two random variables (nested), with a sample of about 200,000 data points. Unfortunately, I'm getting an error message that is difficult to understand without knowing the internals of the glmmPQL function. > model <- glmmPQL(primed ~

Hi everybody, it's a technical question . i have a matrix with 30 columns and 40000 rows, i start my program and i found this error: "error in solve.default(sBB + Z[,,i] %*% Gamma %*% t(Z[,,i])): system is computationally singular: reciprocal condition number = 7.6377e-018 " is it R limit? thanks a lot. Jonathan Charrier

Dear R, If I have remembered correctly, a square matrix is singular if and only if its determinant is zero. I am a bit confused by the following code error. Can someone give me a hint? > a <- matrix(c(1e20,1e2,1e3,1e3),2) > det(a) [1] 1e+23 > solve(a) Error in solve.default(a) : system is computationally singular: reciprocal condition number = 1e-17 Thanks in advance! Feng --

Dear, I built the generalized method of moments model to estimate the sales rank in the bookstore using plm package in R. The equation is: data1.gmm <- pgmm(dynformula(lnsales_rank ~ ln_price + avg_ham_rate + avg_spam_rate + num_of_ham+ num_of_spam + ship_code2 +ship_code3 +ship_code4+ ship_code5+ ship_code6 + ship_ code7, lag = list(0, 0, 0, 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0), log =FALSE), data=data,

Hi all, I am trying to run an autologistic model using the function errorsarlm from spdep package. **I built an XY matrix extracting the two colums from matriz** coords1<-matriz[matriz$casos1==1, c(4,5)] coords1<-as.matrix(coords1) **I identify neighbours of region points** nb20<-dnearneigh(coords1,0,20,longlat=TRUE) ** I build a neighbours list with spatial weights**

Hi list, has anyone succeeded in using pgmm() on any dataset besides Arellano/Bond's EmplUK, as shown in the vignette? Whatever I try, I eventually get a runtime error because of a singular matrix at various points in pgmm.diff() (which gets called by pgmm()). For example, when estimating a "dynamic" version of the Grunfeld data: data(Grunfeld, package="Ecdat") grun

Hi All, This is my R-version information:--- > version _ platform i486-pc-linux-gnu arch i486 os linux-gnu system i486, linux-gnu status major 2 minor 7.1 year 2008 month 06 day 23 svn rev 45970 language R version.string R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23) While calculating partial

Hello everyone, I'm trying to estimate the parameters of the returns series attached using the GARCH code below, but I get the following error message: Error in solve.default(Hessian) : system is computationally singular: reciprocal condition number = 0 Error in diag(solve(Hessian)) : error in evaluating the argument 'x' in selecting a method for function 'diag' Can

Dear R-help, I'm very sorry to ask 2 questions in a week. I am using the package 'crr' and it does exactly what I need it to when I use the dataset a. However, when I use dataset b I get the following error message: Error in drop(.Call("La_dgesv", a, as.matrix(b), tol, PACKAGE = "base")) : system is computationally singular: reciprocal condition number =

I'm trying to fit a zero-inflated poisson model using zeroinfl() from the pscl library. It works fine for most models I try, but when I include either of 2 covariates, I get an error. When I include "PopulationDensity", I get this error: Error in solve.default (as.matrix(fit$hessian)) : system is computationally singular: reciprocal condition number = 1.91306e-34 When I

Hello, I have a question about multivariate Shapiro-Wilks test. I tried to analyze if the data I have are multivariate normal, or how far they are from being multivariate normal. However, any time I did >mshapiro.test(mydata) I get the message: Error in solve.default(R %*% t(R), tol = 1e-18) : system is computationally singular: reciprocal condition number = 5.38814e-021 I tried