Hello Pekka,
there may be a way around it. However, you should provide commented,
minimal, self-contained, reproducible code so we can see what you are
trying to do. We need to see exactly what you are telling R, and what
nlme is telling you.
Cheers
Andrew
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 09:49:28AM +0300, Pekka Kontiainen
wrote:> Hello!
>
>
> So, my problem is following. I have bird offspring growth data and I'd
> like to model individual growth curves (aim is to study asymptotes and
> inflection points) with nlme according to Pinheiro & Bates 2000: first
using
> nlsList to generate individual curves and then nlme to study the
> parameters and fixed effects. The data is structured to two levels. I
> have broods and individuals within the broods. Problems arise if I specify
> the groupedData object to have two levels. Running of the nlme gives me an
> error message "can't run the model with multiple levels", or
something
> alike..
>
> Is there a way around this or should I start looking fo another way of
> analysing the data?
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> Pekka Kontiainen
> Ph.D. Candidate
> Bird Ecology Unit
> Department of Environmental and Biosciences
> P.O. Box 65 (00014) University of Helsinki
> FINLAND
> Phone +35844-5496858
>
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> Pekka Kontiainen
> Ph.D. Candidate
> Bird Ecology Unit
> Department of Environmental and Biosciences
> P.O. Box 65 (00014) University of Helsinki
> FINLAND
> Phone +35844-5496858
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