similar to: Multinomial MCMCglmm

Dear all, I would like to add mixed effects in a multinomial model and I am trying to use MCMCglmm for that. The main problem I face: my data set consits of a trapping data set, where the observation at eah trap (1 or 0 for each species) have been aggregated per traplines. Therefore we have a proportion of presence/absence for each species per trapline. ex: ID_line mesh habitat Apsy Mygl

Hello Amelie, I don't have an answer to your question, but I just wanted to point out this page I noticed recently ( http://hlplab.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/multinomial-random-effects-models-in-r/), which might be helpful. I'm also interested in figuring out how to do a multinomial glmm, so if you find out anything I'd be happy to hear more about it! Based on what I've found so

Hi All, The data set that I have is a cluster data, and I want to run a HLM mixed model with multi-level response. Here is my data set: response: - Level (num: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - 5 levels) Covariates: - Type (Factor: A, B, C - 3 levels) - yr (num: 2006, 2007, ...) - Male (num: 0=not Male, 1=Male - 2 levels) - Ethnicity (Factor: A, B, H, ..., - 7 levels) - ELL (num: 0, 1, - 2

I have a question for users of MCMCglmm that have experience implementing the zero-inflated poisson model. I find that the documentation, and previous questions, do not offer a lot of clear guidance on specifying and interpreting the zipoisson model. In particular, I see a lot of zero-inflated poisson examples that use the at.level(trait, x):variableName syntax. Specifically, the MCMCglmm

Hi, I've been a bit confused by different wyas we specify random effects in lmer and MCMCglmm i just want to clear something. When I want to look for intersexual genetic correlations in the trait, is it equivalent to treat this trait for opposite sexes as separate traits and include the term idh(trait):animal - to treating this as a single trait and fitting idh(sex):animal? Do these two ways

Dear R-users, I would like to fit a glmm with cross-classified random effects with the function MCMCglmm. Something along the lines: model1<-MCMCglmm(response~pred1, random=~re1+re2, data=data) where re1 and re2 should be crossed random effects. I was wondering whether you could tell me specifying cross-classified random effects in MCMCglmm requires a particular syntax? Are there any

Hi R-users: Can anyone give an example of giving starting values for MCMCglmm? I can't find any anywhere. I have 1 random effect (physicians, and there are 50 of them) and family="ordinal"? How can I specify starting values for my fixed effects? It doesn't seem to have the option to do so. Thanks, Ping

Dear Jarrod, I have a data set where residual have a heavy-tailed distribution with some extreme residual values and consequently the distribution deviates from the Gaussian one. Is it possible to include an skewed-normal density for the residual in MCMCglmm package? I have done the analysis of this data with both ASReml & MCMCglmm. The results are similar and outcome from MCMCglmm

Dear R-Helpers, I am having troubles with installing with MCMCglmm package and I get the following error with a package "Matrix" Warning in library(pkg, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE, lib.loc = lib.loc) : there is no package called 'Matrix' Error: package 'Matrix' could not be loaded Execution halted ERROR: lazy loading failed for package

Dear MCMCglmm users, I am currently struggling with the specification of a proper prior and model formula for a multi-response MCMCglmm with two of the three response variables being Gaussian and the third being za-poisson. The model includes several fixed effects and three nested random effects. In general, I would prefer to fit a model with a fixed effect of trait and suppressed intercept for

Hi all, I am trying to run an lme4 model (logistic regression with mixed effects) in MCMCglmm but am unsure how to implement it properly. Currently, my lme4 model formula looks as follows: "outcome ~ (1 + var1 + var2 | study) + var1 + var2" In English, this means that I am fitting a random effects model, where the intercept, var1 and var2 are jointly distributed according to study.

When I try to use the following code, I get the error message shown. This is quite confusing to me, insofar as family is a recognized argument for MCMCglmm. Can anyone spot an obvious glitch? model1 <-MCMCglmm(fixed = NoRRVpos ~ Year, random = ~County, family="zipoisson", data=Rabies_Project_Init)Error in MCMCglmm(fixed = NoRRVpos ~ Year, random = ~County, family =

Dear R users, I?d like to pose aquestion about pMCMC and HDP. I have performed a mixed logistic regression by MCMCglmm (a very good package) obtaining the following results: Iterations = 250001:799901 Thinning interval = 100 Sample size = 5500 DIC: 10.17416 G-structure: ~ID_an post.mean l-95% CI u-95% CIeff.samp ID_an 0.7023 0.0001367 3.678 2126 R-structure: ~units post.mean l-95%

Hi, my question is probably amateurish but I can't seem to find the answer anywhere. In what metric are the MCMCglmm package's posterior means for family = "categorical"? I suppose that they can't be odds ratios and probabilites as my numbers are outside their bounds. So I'm thinking ? are they just basic regression coefficients conceptually equal to those obtained by

Hi, I have a dataset where the residual variance decreases with on one of the predictors (population size). Currently, the full model looks like this: prior<-list(R=list(V=1e-16, nu=-2),G1=list(V=diag(2), nu=2)) m<-MCMCglmm(response~poly(population size,2)*poly(other predictor,2)+time, random=~us(1+time):population, data=data, prior=prior) Basically, it's a random regression with

Hi all, I'm hoping I might be able to get some help with some issues specifying priors for MCMCglmm. I'm trying to fit a gaussian glmm using MCMCglmm to a data set with two (correlated) response variables. The response variables are both logit-transformed proportions (there are a few reasons why I've chosen these with gaussian error over binomal glmm, which I won't go into).

With binomial/binary responses (0|1) running MCMCglmm with family="multinomial" terminates with Error in if (nJ < 1) { : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed with family="categorical" there are no errors I have not looked in the code, do I need format the responses TRUE/FALSE , or is this just a bug? -- H?vard Wahl Kongsg?rd

Hi, I am Olga Viedma. I am running a Zero-inflated negative binomial (ZINB) multi-level model using MCMCglmm package. I have a doubt. Can I use the "Liab" outputs as fitted data, instead of the predicted values from "predict"? The liab outputs fit very well with the observed data, whereas the predicted values are so bad. Thanks in advance, Olga Viedma D . Olga

On 02/05/18 09:53, Michelle Kline wrote: > Hi Bert, > > That was distinctly unhelpful Not if you actually follow Bert's advice. > and your outward hostility to a field you > obviously don't understand reveals a regrettable level of ignorance. I didn't see any hostility to any field. Bert, like many of us, objects to people blithely and arrogantly applying possibly

> On Mar 22, 2018, at 1:31 PM, Michelle Kline <michelle.ann.kline at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks in advance for any help on this question. I'm running multinomial > models using the MCMCglmm package. The models have 5 outcome variables > (each with count data), and an additional two random effects built into the > models. The issue is that when I use