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I am trying to apply methods used by Chaloupka & Limpus (1997) ( http://www.int-res.com/articles/meps/146/m146p001.pdf) to my own turtle growth data. I am having trouble with two things... 1) After the GAM is fit, the residuals are skewed. >m1 <- gam(growth~s(mean.size, bs="cr")+s(year,bs="cr",k=7)+s(cohort,bs="cr")+s(age,bs="cr"), data=grow,

Hello, I am having some difficulty converting my gam code to a correct gamm code, and I'm really hoping someone will be able to help me. I was previously using this script for my overdispersed gam data: M30 <-gam(efuscus~s(mic, k=7) +temp +s(date)+s(For3k, k=7) + pressure+ humidity, family=negbin(c(1,10)), data=efuscus) My gam.check gave me the attached result. In order to

(corrected version of previous posting) I fit a GAM to turtle growth data following methods in Limpus & Chaloupka 1997 (http://www.int-res.com/articles/meps/149/m149p023.pdf). I want to obtain figures similar to Fig 3 c & f in Limpus & Chaloupka (1997), which according to the figure legend are "expected size-at-age functions" obtained by numerically integrating

Hello all, Thank you for the previous assistance I received from this listserve! My current question is: How can I create an appropriate matrix of values from a GAM (actually a GAMM) to make a 3-D plot? This model is fit as a tensor product spline of two predictors and I have used it to make specific predictions by calling:

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Hi R-users, I'm using R 2.11.1, mgcv 1.6-2 to fit a generalized additive mixed model. I'm new to this package...and just got more and more problems... 1. Can I include correlation and/or random effect into gam( ) also? or only gamm( ) could be used? 2. I want to estimate the smoothing function s(x) under each level of treatment. i.e. different s(x) in each level of treatment. shall I

 Hello everyone, Apologies in advance, as this is partially a stats question and partially an R question.  I have been using a GAM to model the activity level of bats going into and coming out from a forested edge.  I had eight microphones set up in a line transect at each of eight sites, and I am hoping to construct a model for each of 7 species.  My count data has a reverse J-shaped skew and

I am having difficulty fitting a mgcv::gamm model that includes both a random smooth term (i.e. 'fs' smooth) and autoregressive errors. Standard smooth terms with a factor interaction using the 'by=' option work fine. Both on my actual data and a toy example (below) I am getting the same error so am inclined to wonder if this is either a bug or a model that gamm is simply unable

Dear R users, I am trying to use "gamm" from package "mgcv" to model results from a mesocosm experiment. My model is of type M1 <- gamm(Resp ~ s(Day, k=8) + s(Day, by=C, k=8) + Flow + offset(LogVol), data=MyResp, correlation = corAR1(form= ~ Day|Mesocosm), family=poisson(link=log)) where the response variable is counts, offset by the

Hello, I am trying to fit a gamm (package mgcv) model with a smooth term, a linear term, and an interaction between the two. The reason I am using gamm rather than gam is that there are repeated measures in time (which is the smooth term x1), so I am including an AR1 autocorrelation term. The model I have so far ended up with is of the type gamm(y ~ s(x1) + s(x1, by=x2), correlation =

In the summary of the gam object produced by gamm, the "Approximate significance of smooth terms" appears to be a test of the improvement in fit over a linear model, rather than a test of the significance of the overall effect of x on y: test.gamm<-gamm(y~te(x, bs="cr"), random=list(grp=~1)) summary(test.gamm$gam) . . . Approximate significance of smooth terms:

Dear R-users, To obtain the percentage of deviance explained when fitting a gam model using the mgcv library is straightforward: summary(object.gam) $dev.expl or alternatively, using the deviance (deviance(object.gam)) of the null and the fitted models, and then using 1 minus the quotient of deviances. However, when a gamm (generalizad aditive mixed model) is fitted, the

Dear All, I have a query relating to the use of the ?predict? and ?gamm? functions. I am dealing with large (approx. 5000) sets of presence/absence data, which I am trying to model as a function of different of environmental covariates. Ideally my models should include individual and colony as random factors. I have been trying to fit binomial models using the gamm function to achieve this. For

Hello, I have a response variable that is a time series of 0's and 1's. And a couple of continous explanatory variables. I would like to fit a gamm with auto-correlation and binomial distribution using gamm in mgcv. Something simple like: tmp<-gamm(y ~ s(x), correlation=corAR1(), binomial) However, I read in various messages on this newsgroup that glmmPQL (used

Hi, I have confirmed temporal correlation problems in my data. Is there a possibility to use corCompSymm for a gamm()? I am an R-beginner. I have very short time series. There are three years and within each year, there are 10 weeks. he 10 weeks are the same every year and have not unique values, I seem not to be able to use AR-1 (I assume that I have too little data for autoregression

Hi all, I would like to fit a gamm model of the form: Y~X+X*f(z) Where f is the smooth function and With random effects on X and on the intercept. So, I try to write it like this: gam.lme<- gamm(Y~ s(z, by=X) +X, random=list(groups=pdDiag(~1+X)) ) but I get the error message : Error in MEestimate(lmeSt, grps) : Singularity in backsolve at level 0, block 1

Hi I am an engineer and am running the package mgcv and specifically the command gamm (generalized additive mixed modelling), with random effects. i have a few queries: 1. When I run the command with 1000/2000 observations, it runs ok. However, I would like to see the results as in vis.gam command in the same package, with the 3-d visuals. It appears no such option is available for gamm in the

I want to use gamm to generate smoothed trend line for three groups identified by dummy variable genea and geneb. My question is how to add in an interaction term between the time and another dummy variable such as gender? fitm<-gamm(change_gfr~ genea+geneb+s(timea_n,bs="ps")+s(timeb_n,bs="ps")+s(timec_n,bs="ps"),data=mm,random=list(time_n=~1|PID)) -- View this

Dear all, I?m analyzing this dataset containing biodiversity indices, measured over time (Week), and at various contaminant concentrations (Treatment). We have two replicates (Replicate) per treatment. I?m looking for the effects of time (Week) and contaminant concentration (Treatment) on diversity indices (e.g. richness). Initial analysis with GAM models showed temporal autocorrelation of

Dear users I am fitting a Generalized Additive Mixed Models (gamm) model to establish possible relationship between explanatory variables (water temperature, dissolved oxygen and chlorophyll) and zooplankton data collected in the inner and outer estuarine waters. I am using monthly time-series which are auto-correlated. In the case of the inner waters, I have applied satisfactoryly (by