similar to: lmer- why do AIC, BIC, loglik change?

Dear All, I am working with linear mixed-effects models using the lme4 package in R. I created a model with the lmer function including some main effects, a two-way interaction and a random effect. Now I am searching how I could incorporate an interaction between the random effect and one of the fixed effects. I tried to express the interaction in:

Full_Name: Dale Barr Version: 2.5.1 (patched) OS: Ubuntu linux x86_64 Submission from: (NULL) (138.23.70.108) When RMySQL is loaded in before lme4, the summary() function for lmer objects in the lme4 packages produces the following error: Error in printMer(object) : no slot of name "status" for this object of class "table" When RMySQL is loaded AFTER lme4, however, no such

If you are indeed using lme and not lmer then the needed function is VarCorr(). However, 2 recommendations. First, this is a busy list and better emails subject headers get better attention. Second, I would recommend using lmer as it is much faster. However, VarCorr seems to be incompatible with lmer and I do not know of another function to work with lmer. Hence, a better email subject header

Dear Friends, Please note that in the following CI lower > CI higher: > require(lmer) > require(gmodels) > fm2 <- lmer(Reaction ~ Days + (1|Subject) + (0+Days|Subject), sleepstudy) > ci(fm2) Estimate CI lower CI upper Std. Error p-value (Intercept) 251.66693 266.06895 238.630280 7.056447 0 Days 10.52773 13.63372 7.389946 1.646900

Hello, R community, I have been using the lmer and mcmcsamp functions in R with some difficulty. I do not believe this is my code or data, however, because my attempts to use the sample code and 'sleepstudy' data provided with the lme4 packaged (and used on several R-Wiki pages) do not return the same results as those indicated in the help pages. For instance: > sessionInfo() R

>>>>> "MM" == Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> >>>>> on Tue, 18 May 2010 12:37:21 +0200 writes: >>>>> "GaGr" == Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> >>>>> on Mon, 17 May 2010 09:45:00 -0400 writes: GaGr> BIC seems like something that would logically go into stats

This question comes up periodically, probably enough to give it a proper thread and maybe point to this thread for reference (similar to the 'conservative anova' thread not too long ago). Moving from lme syntax, which is the function found in the nlme package, to lmer syntax (found in lme4) is not too difficult. It is probably useful to first explain what the differences are between the

After I save an object that contains reference class objects in some of its slots to a file and then re-load it, all.equal() seems to break for me. Is this a bug in all.equal, or is it likely caused by bad implementation of methods on my side? (I see that "'all.equal()' gains methods for 'environment's and 'refClass'es" for R 3.2.0, but that was a little while

Hi, I have been having a tedious issue with lmer models with lots of factors and lots of levels. In order to get the basic information at the beginning of the print out I also have to generate these enormous tables as well. Is there a method command to leave off all of the effects and correlations? Or, do I have to go to string commands?

Hi, I would like to know whether it is possible to obtain a value of significance for random effects when aplying the lme or related functions. The default output in R is just a variance and standard deviation measurement. I feel it would be possible to obtain the significance of these random effects by comparing models with and without these effects. However, I'm not used to perform

Hi, Thanks for your response, it nearly worked! But it only wrote one coloumn of data and not the three columns I need. Using fixef(m1) doesnt give the same results as coef(m1) when you are using more than one random effect. I need the coefficients for each individual so I use coef(m1) to get this which results in an object of class lmer.coef, 3 columns by 700 rows. as.data.frame() wont work on

Hello, has someone written by chance a function to extract the variance-covariance matrix from a lmer-object? I've noticed the VarCorr function, but it gives unhandy output. Regards, Roel de Jong

Hello! I would like to use lmer() to fit data, which are some estimates and their standard errors i.e kind of a "meta" analysis. I wonder if weights argument is the right one to use to include uncertainty (standard errors) of "data" into the model. I would like to use lmer(), since I would like to have a "freedom" in modeling, if this is at all possible. For

LS, I'm estimating multilevel regression models, using the lme-function from the nlme-package. Let's say that I estimated a model and stored it inside the object named 'model'. The summary of that model is shown below: Using summary(model)$tTable , I receive the following output: > summary(model)$tTable Value Std.Error DF t-value

list, i am using lmer to fit multilevel models and trying to use anova to compare the models. however, whenever i run the anova, the AIC, BIC and loglik are different from the original model output- as below. can someone help me out with why this is happening? (i'm hoping the output assocaited with the anova is right!). thank you, darren > unconditional<-lmer(log50 ~ 1 + (1 |

> (fm1 <- lmer2(Reaction ~ Days + (Days|Subject), sleepstudy)) Error in as.double(start) : Calloc could not allocate (888475968 of 4) memory ************************* > sessionInfo() R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18) powerpc-apple-darwin8.8.0 locale: C attached base packages: [1] "grid" "datasets" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices"

Hi, I am trying to calculate ci from lmer. However, I have the error message below: library(gmodels) library(lme4) fm2 <- lmer(Reaction ~ Days + (1|Subject) + (0+Days|Subject), sleepstudy) ci(fm2) Error in as.vector(x, mode) : cannot coerce type 'S4' to vector of type 'any' In addition: Warning message: In mean.default(x, na.rm = na.rm) : argument is not

I'm trying to understand how to plot individual growth curve trajectories, with the overall mean trajectory superimposed (preferably in a slightly thicker line, maybe in black) over the individual trajectories. Using the sleepstudy data in lme4, here is the code I have so far: library(lme4) library(lattice) xyplot(Reaction ~ Days, data = sleepstudy, group = Subject, type = 'l')

My question concerns the logic behind hypothesis tests for fixed-effect terms in models fitted with lme. Suppose the levels of Subj indicate a grouping structure (k subjects) and Trt is a two-level factor (two treatments) for which there are several (n) responses y from each treatment and subject combination. If one suspects a subject by treatment interaction, either of the following models seem

Hello, I wanted to fit a linear mixed model to a data that is similar in terms of design to the 'Machines' data in 'nlme' package except that each worker (with triplicates) only operates one machine. I created a subset of observations from 'Machines' data such that it looks the same as the data I wanted to fit the model with (see code below). I fitted a model in