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Hi, I am trying to add multiple variance structures such as the first example below: vf1 <- varComb(varIdent(form = ~1|Sex), varPower()) However my code below will not work can anybody please advise me? VFcomb<-varComb(varExp(form=~depcptwithextybf),varFixed(form=~FebNAO)) also if you have two variables with the same weights function would you write that as:

  Hola,   Por favor, ¿podríais indicarme qué recursos (librerías o ideas) pueden resultar de utilidad para crear un gráfico del estilo del de la figura 3.8 del siguiente link?   http://www.tsc.uvigo.es/BIO/Bioing/ChrLDoc3.html#3.5   Actualmente estoy utilizando funciones muy básicas y la verdad es que no me encuentro muy satisfecha con el resultado.   Muchas gracias.   Eva [[alternative HTML

Dear listers, glmmPQL (package MASS) is given to work by repeated call to lme. In the classical outputs glmmPQL the Variance Structure is given as " fixed weights, Formula: ~invwt". The script shows that the function varFixed() is used, though the place where 'invwt' is defined remains unclear to me. I wonder if there is an easy way to specify another variance

Dear R-List users, Can anyone explain exactly the difference between Weights options in lm glm and gls? I try the following codes, but the results are different. > lm1 Call: lm(formula = y ~ x) Coefficients: (Intercept) x 0.1183 7.3075 > lm2 Call: lm(formula = y ~ x, weights = W) Coefficients: (Intercept) x 0.04193 7.30660 > lm3 Call:

Hi, I need to correct for ar(1) behavior of my residuals of my model. I noticed that there are multiple gls models in R. I am wondering if anyone has experience in choosing between gls models. For example, how should one decide whether to use lm.gls in MASS, or gls in nlme for correcting ar(1)? Does anyone have a preference? Any advice is appreciated! Thanks, -- Tom [[alternative HTML

Hi I use gnls to fit non linear models of the form y = alpha * x**beta (alpha and beta being linear functions of a 2nd regressor z i.e. alpha=a1+a2*z and beta=b1+b2*z) with variance function varPower(fitted(.)) which sounds correct for the data set I use. My purpose is to use the fitted models for predictions with other sets of regressors x, z than those used in fitting. I therefore need to

I am trying to fit a generalised least squares model using gls in the nlme package. The model seems to fit very well when I plot the fitted values against the original values, and the model parameters have quite narrow confidence intervals (all are significant at p<5%). The problem is that the log likelihood is always given as -Inf. This doesn't seem to make sense because the model

Dear All -- I am trying to use within a little table producing code an anova comparison of two gls fitted objects, contained in a list of such object, obtained using nlme function gls. The anova procedure fails to locate the second of the objects. The following code, borrowed from the help page of anova.gls, exemplifies: --------------- start example code --------------- library(nlme) ##

Hi, I would like to use a weighted lm model to reduce heteroscendasticity. I am wondering if the only way to generate the weights in R is through the laborious process of trial and error by hand. Does anyone know if R has a function that would automatically generate the weights need for lm? Thanks, -- Tom [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

A couple of questions: How to be sure that gls allowes errors to be correlated and/or have unequal variances? (is this on auto or is there a switch?) How to calculate confidence limits for a linear regresssion? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: dthompson.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 303 bytes Desc: Card for David Thompson Url :

Dear R-help members, I have a question regarding how to use varComb function to specify a variance function for the "weights" in the gls. I need to fit a linear model with heteroscedasticity. The variance function is exp(c0+nu0*W +nu1*W^2) where W is a covariate. Initially I want to use varFunc to define my own variance function following the instruction in the Pinheiro and Bates

Hello, I am trying to design new variance structures by using fixed effects variables in combination with the VarPower function. That is, I would like to create and evaluate my own variance function in the data frame and then incorporate it into the model using varPower, with value=.5. As a start, I am trying to recreate the function of VarConstPower by introducing two new variables in the

Dear R-users I am relatively new to R, i hope my many novice questions are welcome. I have problems accessing some objects (specifically the random effects, correlation structure and variance function) from an object of class gls and lme. I used the following models: yah <- gls (outcome~ -1 + as.factor(Trial):as.factor(endpoint)+

Dear R developers, first of all let me join the chorus of congratulations for the release of R 1.0.0. Well, done! Unfortunately, I find it necessary to e-mail in a bug report regarding the `nlme' package. On my office machine I experience the following trouble: bossiaea:/opt/R$ R CMD check -c nlme Checking package `nlme' ... Massaging examples into `nlme-Ex.R' ... Running

Hi: I have data from an assay in the form of two vectors, one is response and the other is a predictor. When I attempt to fit a 5 parameter logistic model with "nls", I get converged parameter estimates. I also get the same answers with "gnls" without specifying the "weights" argument. However, when I attempt to use the "gnls" function and try to

Dear R-users, I hope you will have time to read me and I will try to be brief. I am also sorry for my poor english. I used gls function from the package nlme to correct two types of bias in my database. At first, because my replicates are spatially aggregated, I would like to fit a corStruct function like corLin, corSpher, corRatio, corExp or corGaus in my gls model, and simultaneously,

Hi there I am a Masters student at the University of Stellenbosch. I have been using R to analyze the data, using the GLS model, of one of my experiments. The problem that I am having is that whenever I run my model using: fit.glsmodel1<-gls(Number~as.factor(Season)+as.factor(Depth)+as.factor(Orientation), data=Number, weights=varPower(), method="ML") I get the error: Error in

Dear list, I was trying to create a VarClass for nlme to work with Fay-Herriot (FH) models. The idea was to create a modification of VarComb that instead of multiplying the variance functions made their sum (I called it varSum). After some fails etc... I found that the I was not getting the expected results because I needed to make sigma fixed. Trying to find how to make sigma fixed I run into

Dear R-help members, I have a question regarding how to use varComb function to specify a variance function for the "weights" in the gls. I need to fit a linear model with heteroscedasticity. The variance function is exp(c0+nu0*W +nu1*W^2) where W is a covariate. Initially I want to use varFunc to define my own variance function following the instruction in the Pinheiro and

Dear R-project team, I have a problem with the function varFixed() of the nlme-package. I used it with the squid-data of Zuur et. al 2009 (chapter 4), to fix increasing residuals (heterogenetiy) (see graph in the email) I get the message ' Variance function structure of class varFixed with no parameters, or uninitialized Could you help me please? Kind regards Franz