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Dear R-users, I am using the most updated package of lme4 (lme4_0.999375-2). I have a data set consisting of ~900 observations at ~440 independent survey sites. There are an unbalanced number of surveys at each site. I am attempting to develop several models evaluating the presence/absence of a species (PRES) at these random sites (SITE) using a number of predictor variables. The

I'm resending this message because I did not include a subject line in my first posting. Apologies for the inconvenience! Tanja > Hello, > > I'm trying to fit a generalized linear mixed model to estimate diabetes prevalence at US county level. To do this I'm using the glmer() function in package lme4. I can fit relatively simple models (i.e. few covariates) but when

I am running a series of candidate mixed models using lmer (package lme4) and I'd like to be able to compile a list of the AIC scores for those models so that I can quickly summarize and rank the models by AIC. When I do logistic regression, I can easily generate this kind of list by creating the model objects using glm, and doing: > md <- c("md1.lr", "md2.lr",

Dear All, I am working with a generalized linear mixed-effects model with poisson error using the lme4 package in R. I created a model with the lmer function including some main effects, three two way interactions and two random effects. The model works well, but I have troubles when removing on of the two-way interactions. The Warning message: "In mer_finalize(ans) : false convergence

Dear R users, I am trying to fit a GLMM to the following dataset; tab a b c 1 1 0.6 199320100313 2 1 0.8 199427100412 3 1 0.8 199427202112 4 1 0.2 199428100611 5 1 1.0 199428101011 6 1 0.8 199428101111 7 0 0.8 199527103011 8 1 0.6 199527200711 9 0 0.8 199527202411 10 0 0.6 199529100412 11 1 0.2 199626201111 12 2 0.8 199627200612 13 1 0.4 199628100111 14 1 0.8

Hello! I am trying to run a GLMM using LME4, and keep getting the warning message: "In mer_finalize(ans) : false convergence (8)" I am quite new to R, and in looking into this thus far, it appears that there are a variety of reasons why this might occur, such as needing to standardize some parameters or if all subjects in one combination of parameters all have the same outcome. I also

Hi, I am doing a binomial GLMM with a random intercept using the formula below, but I always get the same warning message. > m01 <- lmer(pres~ HT + DN + dtree + DNm + cmnhi + cmxes + cplan + craan + lfphal0100 + lfov0100 + lfop0100 + (1|plot), family=binomial, data=vphal, verbose=TRUE) 0: 6309.9448: 0.459924 -5.20747 -0.378722 0.558779 -0.200922 -0.0488451 -0.397844 0.367916 -2.09820

Using lmer() on my data results in an error. The problem, I think, is my model specification. However, lm() works ok. I recreated this error with a more simple dataset. (See code below.) # word and letter recognition data # two within factors: # word length: 4, 5, 6 letters # letter position: 1-4 (in 4-letter words), 1-5 (in 5-letter words), 1-6 (in 6-letter words) # one dependent variable: #

Dear R users: I am running lmer(), and I had the following warning message: "In mer_finalize(ans): iteration limit reached without convergence (9) What is the default limit for lmer()? And how do I increase the limit? Many thanks, Julia -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-increase-iteration-limit-for-lmer%28%29--tp20252974p20252974.html Sent from the R help

Hello, I am trying to use the lmer function from the lme4 package I have installed today (lme4_0.999375-32.zip; R-2.10.1). According to the information, I should be able to use a generalized linear mixed model. However when I try to fit a model with Gamma distribution of the errors, it gives me the following error model1<-lmer(Cmic~1+(1|FOREST/DEPTH),data=DATOS,family=Gamma) Error en

Hi, I am new to this list. I have a question regarding including both spatial and temporal random factors in lmer. These two are not nested, and an example of model I try to fit is model1<-lmer(Richness~Y+Canopy+Veg_cm+Treatment+(1|Site/Block/Plot)+(1|Year), family=poisson, REML=FALSE), where richness = integer Y & Treatment = factor Canopy & Veg_cm = numerical, continous

Hi all, I am trying to run a linear mixed effect models in lmer() from the lme4 package using the weights option. I am using the R version 2.7.2 (2008-08-25) and lmer version in lme4_0.999375-26, which I think it is the latest version! I am getting and error message when I add the option "weights" in the lmer function. This is the error message I get "Error en

I am running the lmer() command in a for loop and occasionally a particular iteration is producing the false convergence warning. I would like to be able to mark these iterations with a dummy variable, but I can't find any other notification besides the warning message, which, in a for loop, only is printed after the loop is finished (which does not allow me to see which iteration it happened

I have fit a model with a more complex covariance structure, but the fit reports a false convergence. I have read from past posts that this can be an indication of over-specification. I went ahead and fit a model with a simpler covariance structure. It doesn't seem like I can compare the two likelihoods or the AIC or BIC to compare the two model since the one model had false convergence.

Dear R community, I have two questions regarding fitting GLMM using maximum likelihood method. The first one arises from trying repeat an analysis in the Breslow and Clayton 1993 JASA paper. Model 3 of the epileptic dataset has two random effects, one subject specific, and one observation specific. Thus if we count random effects, there are more parameters than observations. When I try to run the

Dear R Community! We analyse the impact of climbing activity on cliff vegetation. During our fieldwork, we recorded 90 Transects in 3 climbing sites. The aim is to see, if the plant cover (response: Cover) is influenced only by crevice availability (predictor: Cracs), or, additional, by the distance to the climbing route (predictor: Distance). Six plots are nested within one Transect

Hello, and sorry for asking a question without the data - hope it can still be answered: I've run two things on the same data: # Using lme: mix.lme <- lme(DV ~a+b+c+d+e+f+h+i, random = random = ~ e+f+h+i| group, data = mydata) # Using lmer mix.lmer <- lmer(DV ~a+b+c+d+(1|group)+(e|group)+(f|group)+(h|group)+(i|group), data = mydata) lme provided an output (fixed effects and random

Dear list, i'm a new R user, so I apologize if the topic is already being addressed by some other user. I'm trying to determine if the reproductive success of a species of bird is related to a list of covariates. These are the covariates: ? elev: elevation of nest (meters) ? seadist: distance from the sea (meters) ? meanterranova: records of temperature ? minpengS1: records

Hi dears while modeling an interaction random effect in lmer i receive the instantaneous error message > ldlM4<-lmer(ldl~rt*cd4+age+rf+pharmac+factor(hcv)+ + hivdur+(rt:cd4|id),na.action=na.omit,REML=F) *Warning message: In mer_finalize(ans) : false convergence (8) * I think the matter lies in syntax, 'cause i sistematically receive the same message even when changing response... PS:

Dear R Community, I?m relatively new in the field of R and I hope someone of you can help me to solve my nerv-racking problem. For my Master thesis I collected some behavioral data of fish using acoustic telemetry. The aim of the study is to compare two different groups of fish (coded as 0 and 1 which should be the dependent variable) based on their swimming activity, habitat choice, etc.