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Hello R and BUGS users, I am writing a heirarchical model in R to send to BUGS via R2WinBUGS and I am finding it difficult to get the model to run. I seem to be having two problems. 1) I can't seem to send variables classed as factors (Month), is there a way do this? 2) Checking the Log in WinBUGS I can see that the model is Syntactically correct, but Bugs is not able to recognise the the

I have a complex function that I want to maximize (I have multiplied this function by -1 so that it becomes a minimization problem in the code below). This function has two equality constraints. I get the programs to run but the answer isn't correct because, when it does converge, at least one of the constraints is violated. Any suggestions? Code below Violated constraint (an easy check):

Dear R community, I have trouble implementing a nested variance-covariance matrix in the lme function. The model has two fixed effects called End and logpgc, the response variable is the logarithm to base 2 of Intensity ( log2(Intensity) ) and the random effects are called Probe and ProbeNo. The model has the following nesting structure: A Pixel is nested within the ProbeNo,the ProbeNo is

a graph question. Thanks a lot in advance. I made two scatterplots on one graph (sigma vs. delta1, sigma vs. delta2) (20 observations of delta1, delta2 and corresponding sigma) the x-axis is sigma, the y-axis is either delta1 or delta2. I connected both scatterplots. To seperate them, one curves is a line with circles, the other curve is a line with squares on it. I want to make a notation

I'm solving 4 complex equations simultaneously. Code is below. The code returns only zero's for the solution though there should also be a non-zero result. I'm pretty confident that the equations are correct because they are straight from a published paper and I checked them pretty thoroughly. The parameter values I used are from the published paper as well. Any suggestions for how

Dear R developers! Considering I got no response or comments in the general r-help forum so far, perhaps my question is actually better suited for this list? I have added some more hopefully relevant technical details to my original post (edited below). Any comments gratefully received! Best regards, David Kreil. ---------- Dear R experts, I have a problem that is a related to the question

Does anyone know of contributions to R for solving sparse linear systems? In particular for spatial stats I am interested in solving large positive definite symmetric systems. Thanks in advance, Doug ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Doug Nychka, Geophysical Statistics Project Email: nychka at ucar.edu National Center for Atmospheric

Is there an R implementation of a scheme for automatic smoothing parameter selection with loess, e.g., by minimizing one of the AIC/GCV statistics discussed by Hurvich, Simonoff & Tsai (1998)? Below is a function that calculates the relevant values of AICC, AICC1 and GCV--- I think, because I to guess from the names of the components returned in a loess object. I guess I could use

Hi there, I've sent this e-mail to the list twice but didn't get it back from the list. Have it reach list members? cheers, Ronaldo ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ronaldo Prati <rcprati at gmail.com> Date: 14/12/2006 11:59 Subject: Model formula question To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Hi all, I'm not familiar with R programming and I'm trying to

Hi, I have a bivariate longitudinal dataset. As an example say, i have the data frame with column names var1 var2 Unit time trt (trt represents the treatment) Now suppose I want to fit a joint model of the form for the *i* th unit var1jk = alpha1 + beta1*timejk + gamma1* trtjk + delta1* timejk:trtjk + error1jk var2 = alpha2 + beta2*timejk + gamma2* trtjk + delta2* timejk:trtjk +

Dear R experts, Attached you can find the expression of a loglikelihood function which I would like to maximize in R. So far, I have done maximization with the combined use of the mathematical programming language AMPL (www.ampl.com) and the solver SNOPT (http://www.sbsi-sol-optimize.com/manuals/SNOPT%20Manual.pdf). With these tools, maximization is carried out in a few seconds. I wonder if that

Hi all, I'm not familiar with R programming and I'm trying to reproduce a result from a paper. Basically, I have a dataset which I would like to model in terms of successive increments, i.e. (y denote empirical values of y) y_1 = y1, y_2 = y1 + delta1, y_3 = y1 + delta1 + delta2. ... y_m = y1 + sum_2^m delta j where delta_j donote successive increments in the y-values, i.e. delta

Hello, I am running Dovecot 1.0.5 and seem to have lots of errors in my Dovecot logs. The worst errors are things like: Oct 30 16:11:42 delta2 dovecot: IMAP(x): Corrupted transaction log file /home/spamcop-net2/deputies/dovecot.index.log: end_offset (392) > current sync_offset (388) Oct 30 16:11:42 delta2 dovecot: IMAP(x): file mail-index-sync-update.c: line 841

I noticed a problem using R 2.7.1 on Windows XP SP2 with the precompiled Atlas Rblas.dll. Running the code below causes R to crash. I started R using Rgui --vanilla and am using the precompiled Atlas Rblas.dll from cran.fhcrc.org dated 17-Jul-2007 05:04 for Core2 Duo. The code that causes the crash: x <- rnorm(100) y <- rnorm(100) z <- rnorm(100) loess(z ~ x * y) loess(z ~ x) does

> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [SMTP:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of ernesto > Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 9:25 AM > To: Mailing List R > Subject: [R] help with gepRglm::likfit.glsm > > Hi, > > I'm exploring likfit.glsm and I need some help. I have to say that I'm > not an MCMC expert ... >

Dear: Continuing the issue of 'ifelse'! I selecting the data whose 'x2'=1 for maximizing likelihood. I used two way to do this but the results are different. 1.Way one I use the data for x2=1 and run the program. It works for me. Tthe program is described as below: function (parameters,y1,x11) { p<-parameters[1] alpha1<-parameters[2] beta1<-parameters[3]

Dear all, I tried running the following syntax but it keeps running for about 4 hours and then i got the following errors: Error in if (is.na(f0$objective)) { : argument is of length zero In addition: Warning message: In is.na(f0$objective) : is.na() applied to non-(list or vector) of type 'NULL' Here is the syntax itself: library('nloptr') library('pracma') #

Dear All: I tried to fit negative binomial distribution to data in terms of mean and mean is also a quadratic function of another variable. The likelihood function is: function (parameters, y1,x11) { p<-parameters[1] alpha1<-parameters[1] beta1<-parameters[2] delta1<-parameters[3] mu<-alpha1+beta1*(x11)+delta1*(x11^2) ifelse(y1>=0|x11>=0, L<-

Very simple setup. We have a NT4 pdc and some windows boxes. We have a large raid running on linux that we use samba to share to the rest of the network. 2.2.4 works great, 3.0 doesn't using the same smb.conf. I'm sure there are some things that have changed but even trying to take the examples on the site and mod them to fit my case doesn't work either. The linux/samba box name is

Dear R-help, I would like to compute the variance for the proportion of treatment effect by a surrogate in a survival model (Lin, Fleming, and De Gruttola 1997 in Statistics in Medicine). The paper mentioned that the covariance matrix matches that of the covariance matrix estimator for the marginal hazard modelling of multiple events data (Wei, Lin, and Weissfeld 1989 JASA), and is implemented