similar to: Error Message Comes from the Vuong Function

Dear All, I am using the function vuong from pscl package to compare 2 non nested models NB1 (negative binomial I ) and Zero-inflated model. NB1 <-  glm(, , family = quasipoisson), it is an object of class: "glm" "lm" zinb <- zeroinfl( dist = "negbin") is an object of class: "zeroinfl"   when applying vuong function I get the following: vuong(NB1,

Hi, I have two questions. First, I'd like to compare a ZINB model to a negativ binomial model with the Vuong test, but I can't find how to performe it from the zicount package. Does a programm exist to do it ? Second, I'd like to know in which cases we have to use a double hurdle model instead of a zero inflated model. Many thanks, St??phanie Payet REES France R??seau

Dear all, I want to build a model in R based on animal collection data, that look like the following Nr Village District Site Survey Species Count 1 AX A F Dry B 0 2 AY A V Wet A 5 3 BX B F Wet B 1 4 BY B V Dry B 0 Each data point shows one collection unit in a certain Village, District, Site, and Survey for a certain Species. 'Count' is the number of animals collected in that

Dear All, I am using the function vuong of the package pscl to compare 2 non nested glm models with a numeric response. I did the following m1<-glm(y ~x ,data=xxx) m2<-glm(y ~z , data=xxx) When calling the vuong function I get the following message: > vuong(m1,m2) Error in predprob.glm(m1) : your object of class glm is unsupported by predprob.glmyour object of class lm is unsupported

I would like to test in R what regression fits my data best. My dependent variable is a count, and has a lot of zeros. And I would need some help to determine what model and family to use (poisson or quasipoisson, or zero-inflated poisson regression), and how to test the assumptions. 1) Poisson Regression: as far as I understand, the strong assumption is that dependent variable mean = variance.

Dear All, I am using the function vuong of the package pscl to compare 2 non nested glm models with a numeric response. I did the following m1<-glm(y ~x ,data=xxx) m2<-glm(y ~z , data=xxx) When calling the vuong function I get the following message: > vuong(m1,m2) Error in predprob.glm(m1) : your object of class glm is unsupported by predprob.glmyour object of class lm is unsupported

Hi all, I have been trying to use zeroinfl() with the pscl package with R version 2.1.1. and with the newest versions of the contrib packages compatible with R 2.1.1. I have read the examples, the vignette and all the posts relating to zeroinfl() but I am still confused as to how to structure the model. Here is a small example; the error message is the same for big data sets

Dear R-Helpers, Can anyone please help me to interpret warning messages from zeroinfl (package pscl) while fitting a zero inflated negative binomial model? The console reports convergence and the parameters seam reasonable, but these <<Warning messages: 1: algorithm did not converge in: glm.fit(X, Y, family = poisson()) 2: fitted rates numerically 0 occurred in: glm.fit(X, Y, family =

Dear All, I would like to know if the Voung test (Voung; Econometrica, 1989) to compare two non-nested regression models has been implemented in R. Thanks in advance for your assistance, mirko [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi I have been using a Zero-Inflated negative binomial model fitted using the pscl zeroinfl command but I would like to extract a goodness of fit measure are there any suitable pseudo R^2 measures available for this type of analysis to try and assess the amount of variation in the data explained by the model? I have tried with the pR2 command in pscl (for computing various pseudo R2

Dear all, I'm using zeroinfl() from the pscl-package for zero inflated Poisson regression. I would like to calculate (aproximate) prediction intervals for the fitted values. The package itself does not provide them. Can this be calculated analyticaly? Or do I have to use bootstrap? What I tried until now is to use bootstrap to estimate these intervals. Any comments on the code are welcome.

Dear list, I would like to know: 1. After I have used the R code (http://pscl.stanford.edu/zeroinfl.r) to fit a zero-inflated negative binomial model, what criteria I should follow to compare and select the best model (models with different predictors)? 2. How can I compare the model I get from question 1 (zero-inflated negative binomial) to other models like glm family models or a logistic

Dear list, I'm currently trying to develop a model to assess clam yield potential in a lagoon. I'm using the zeroinfl function of the pscl package to fit a Zero-inflated negative binomial model, given the high occurrence of zero counts. I don't understand from the sentence in the pscl guide "Zero-inflated count models are a type of two-component mixture model, with a component

Dear R crew: I am sorry this question has been posted before, but I can't seem to solve this problem yet. I have a simple dataset consisting of two variables: cestode intensity and chick size (defined as CAPI). Intensity is a count and clearly overdispersed, with way too many zeroes. I'm interested in looking at the association between these two variables, i.e. how well does chick

Dear R crew: I think I am in the right mailing list. I have a very simple dataset consisting of two variables: cestode intensity and chick size (defined as CAPI). Intensity is clearly overdispersed, with way too many zeroes. I'm interested in looking at the association between these two variables, i.e. how well does chick size predict tape intensity? I fit a zero inflated negat. binomial

Hi Just a quick problem that I hope is simple to resolve. I'm doing some work with zero inflated poisson models using the pscl package. I can build models using zeroinfl and get outputs fom them with no problem, but when I try to use the predict.zeroinfl function, I get Error: could not find function "predict.zeroinfl". I was using an older version of R, but still had the same

Hi, I am new to R and has been depending mostly on the online tutotials to learn R. I have to deal with zero inflated negative binomial distribution. I am however unable to understand the following example from this link http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/r/dae/zinbreg.htm The result gives two blocks. *library(pscl) zinb<-zeroinfl(count ~ child + camper | persons, dist = "negbin", EM =

Hello all: I have a question regarding the fitted.values returned from the zeroinfl() function. The values seem to be nearly identical to those fitted.values returned by the ordinary glm(). Why is this, shouldn't they be more "zero-inflated"? I construct a zero-inflated series of counts, called Y, like so: b= as.vector(c(1.5, -2)) g= as.vector(c(-3, 1)) x <- runif(100) # x

I'm trying to fit a zero-inflated poisson model using zeroinfl() from the pscl library. It works fine for most models I try, but when I include either of 2 covariates, I get an error. When I include "PopulationDensity", I get this error: Error in solve.default (as.matrix(fit$hessian)) : system is computationally singular: reciprocal condition number = 1.91306e-34 When I

Hi, This may be such a general question that my searches are just failing. I installed the pscl lib, all appears fine, installed it several different ways to be sure, but I am getting: Error: could not find function "zeroinfl" I double checked my spelling of the function and that it had not been evolved out of the package. It is in the same location as the other libraries that are