similar to: mixed model in r

This question comes up periodically, probably enough to give it a proper thread and maybe point to this thread for reference (similar to the 'conservative anova' thread not too long ago). Moving from lme syntax, which is the function found in the nlme package, to lmer syntax (found in lme4) is not too difficult. It is probably useful to first explain what the differences are between the

I haven't been able to fully make sense of the conflicting online information about whether and how to specify nesting structure for a nested, mixed model. I'll describe my experiment and hopefully somebody who knows lme4 well can help. We're measuring the fluorescence intensity of brain slices from frogs that have undergone various treatments. We want to use multcomp to look for

Dear useRs, I am fitting a mixed model using the function lmer from the package lme4, but I have some problems when I try to test the effect of my factors of interest. First let me explain the structure of the model: I'm measuring animal movements. Explicitly, I am interested in displacement (straight-line distance from an initial point). Displacements are measured longitudinally, with one

Dear list, I am trying to fit some mixed models using packages lme4 and nlme. I did the model selection using lmer but I suspect that I may have some autocorrelation going on in my data so I would like to have a look using the handy correlation structures available in nlme. The problem is that I cannot translate my lmer model to lme: mod1<- lmer(y~x + (1|a:b) + (1|b:c), data=mydata)

Hi R community! I've fitted three mixed-effects regression models to a thousand bootstrap samples (case-resampling regression) using the lme4 package in a custom-built for-loop. The only output I saved were the inferential statistics for my fixed and random effects. I did not save any output related to the performance to the machine learning algorithm used to fit the models (REML=FALSE).

hello everyone, I would like to as for advice for the use of ?lmer? (package ?lme4?) and writing the proper syntax to best describe my data using a mixed-effects model. I have just started to use these models, and although I have read some good examples (Extending the Linear Model with R, Faraway 2005; and the R book, Crawley 2007), I am still not sure of the syntax to test my hypothesis.

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",

Hi, I have fitted a generalized linear mixed effects model using lmer (library lme4), and the family = quasibinomial. I have tried to obtain a MCMC sample, but on calling mcmcsamp(model1, 1000) I get the following error which I don't understand at all: Error in .local(object, n, verbose, ...) : Update not yet written traceback() delivers: 4: .Call(mer_MCMCsamp, ans, object) 3:

Dear R users I have built several glmm models using glmmPQL in the following structure: m1<-glmmPQL(dev~env*har*treat+dens, random = ~1|pop/rep, family = Gamma) (full script below, data attached) I have tried all the methods I can find to obtain some sort of model fit score or to compare between models using following the deletion of terms (i.e. AIC, logLik, anova.lme(m1,m2)), but I

Hello list, I'm trying to figure out how exactly the specification of nested random effects works in the lmer function of lme4. To give a concrete example, consider the rat-liver dataset from the R book (rats.txt from: http://www.bio.ic.ac.uk/research/mjcraw/therbook/data/ ). Crawley suggests to analyze this data in the following way: library(lme4) attach(rats) Treatment <-

Dear R-users, I am currently trying to switch from SAS to R, and am not very familiar with R yet, so forgive me if this question is irrelevant. If I try to find the significance of the fixed factor "spikes" in a generalized linear mixed model, with "site" nested within "zone" as a random factor, I compare following two models with the anova function:

I am newbie in R, trying to understand and compare syntax in nlme and lme4. lme() model from the nlme package I am interested in is: lme.m1.1 = lme(Y~A+B+C,random=~1|D/E,data=data,method="ML") (for simplicity reason, I am giving generic names of factors) If I understand well, there are three fixed factors: A, B and C, and two random factors: D and E. In addition to that, E is nested in

Version 0.9975-11 of the lme4 package has been uploaded to CRAN. The source package should be available on the mirrors in a day or two and binary packages should follow soon after. There are several changes in this release of the package. The most important is the availability of a development version of lmer called, for the time being, lmer2. At present lmer2 only fits linear mixed models.

Version 0.9975-11 of the lme4 package has been uploaded to CRAN. The source package should be available on the mirrors in a day or two and binary packages should follow soon after. There are several changes in this release of the package. The most important is the availability of a development version of lmer called, for the time being, lmer2. At present lmer2 only fits linear mixed models.

I am new to R and am trying to specify a model for mixed model analysis. When I run the following model I get an error: AAT<- lmer(Y ~ S + A + (1|S:A/H), data=AT, REML=True) The error looks like this: Error in Spar_loc:`:` : NA/NaN argument In addition: Warning messages: 1: In model.matrix.default(mt, mf, contrasts) : variable 'Spar_loc' converted to a factor 2: In Spar_loc:`:` :

Dear R and statistics experts: I have data of a behavioral experiment with the aim to investigate the effect of a memory task on motor learning. Question: I would appreciate help in figuring out a possible formula to determine whether motor learning across sessions differs between 2 groups. Design: - 2 Groups: group A: n=10 subjects, group B: n=10 - 6 motor learning sessions: baseline;

Dear list I need your help: Execuse me for my limited R knowledge. #example data set set.seed (134) lm=c(1:4) block = c(rep(lm,6)) gen <- c(rep(1, 4), rep(2, 4), rep(3, 4), rep(4, 4),rep(5, 4),rep(6, 4)) X1 = c( rnorm (4, 10, 4), rnorm (4, 12, 6), rnorm (4, 10, 7),rnorm (4, 5, 2), rnorm (4, 8, 4), rnorm (4,7, 2)) X2 = X1 + rnorm(length(X1), 0,3) yvar <- c(X1, X2) X <- c(rep( 1,

Dear All, I am working with linear mixed-effects models using the lme4 package in R. I created a model with the lmer function including some main effects, a two-way interaction and a random effect. Now I am searching how I could incorporate an interaction between the random effect and one of the fixed effects. I tried to express the interaction in:

Hi everyone! I am a biologist from Argentina and have to solve this problem. I have an insect population obtained from 10 different nests and need to know its sex ratio. But as I cannot ensure insects independence I need to run a model where I can include the variable “nest” as with a random effect. The response variable has a binomial distribution (males or females). I’ve been reading for a while

Hi All, I am trying to shift from running mixed models in SAS using PROC MIXED to using lme4 package in R. In trying to match the coefficients of R output to that of SAS output, I came across this problem. The dataset I am using is this one: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/statug/63033/HTML/default/viewer.htm#statug_mixed_sect034.htm If I run the following code: proc mixed data=rc