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Hello. I am fitting a two-level mixed model which assumes equality of variance in the lowest-level residuals across groups. The call is: fit3<-lme(CLnNAR~CLnRGR,data=meta.analysis, + na.action="na.omit",random=~1+CLnRGR|study.code) I want to test the assumption of equality of variances across groups at the lowest level. Can someone tell me how to do this? I know that one

Hi- I want to fit a model with crossed random effects and heteroskedastic level-1 errors where inferences about fixed effects are of primary interest. The dimension of the random effects is making the model computationally prohibitive using lme() where I could model the heteroskedasticity with the "weights" argument. I am aware that the weights argument to lmer() cannot be used to

I have a data set with 50 different x values and 5 values for the sampling variance; each of the 5 sampling variances corresponds to 10 particular x values. I am trying to fit a mixed effect linear model and I'm not sure about the syntax for specifying the fixed variance structure. In Pinheiro's book my situation appears to be similar to the example used for varIdent, where there is a

Here is a piece of code fitting a model to a (part) of a dataset, just for illustration. I can extract the random interaction and the residual variance in group meth==1 using VarCorr, but how do I get the other residual variance? Is there any way to get the other variances in numerical form directly - it seems a litte contraintuitive to use "as.numeric" when extracting estimates,

How does one implement a likelihood-ratio test, to test whether the variances of the random effects differ between two groups of subjects? Suppose your data consist of repeated measures on subjects belonging to two groups, say boys and girls, and you are fitting a linear mixed-effects model for the response as a function of time. The within-subject errors (residuals) have the same variance in

Dear R-users I am relatively new to R, i hope my many novice questions are welcome. I have problems accessing some objects (specifically the random effects, correlation structure and variance function) from an object of class gls and lme. I used the following models: yah <- gls (outcome~ -1 + as.factor(Trial):as.factor(endpoint)+

Hi R-helpers, I'm new to time series modelling, but my requirement seems to fall just outside the capabilities of the arima function in R. I'd like to fit an ARMA model where the variance of the disturbances is a function of some exogenous variable. So something like: Y_t = a_0 + a_1 * Y_(t-1) +...+ a_p * Y_(t-p) + b_1 * e_(t-1) +...+ b_q * e_(t-q) + e_t, where e_t ~ N(0, sigma^2_t),

Please, I seek expertise and advice, possibly leads to R packages or stats literature. My data: measurements of economic variables for each county of California over 37 years. My dependent variable is square feet of office floor space permitted to be added in a county. Independent variables include for example change in number of office jobs in same county same year (and lagged years).

Using the weight argument with a variance function in lme (nlme), you can allow for heteroscedasticity of the within-group error. Is there a way to do this for the other variance components? For example, suppose you had subjects, days nested within subjects, and visits nested within days within subjects (a fully nested two-way design) and you had, say men and women subjects. Could you allow for

Dear Douglas and R-help, Does lme assume normal distribution AND equal variance among groups like anova() does? If it does, is there any method like unequal variance T-test (Welch T) in lme when each group has unequal variance in my data? Thanks, Shirley

I was reading the help but just did not get how to specify starting values for varIdent() of the lme() function, although I managed to do it for corSymm(). Do I specify the values just as they are printed out in an output, like c(1, 1.3473, 1.0195). Or do I need to take the residual and multiply it with these like c(0.2235, 0.2235*1.3473, 0.2235*1.0195) or any other form that I dont know of?

Using lmer in the lme4 package, you can compute the conditional variance-covariance matrix of the random effects using the bVar slot: bVar: A list of the diagonal inner blocks (upper triangles only) of the positive-definite matrices on the diagonal of the inverse of ZtZ+Omega. With the appropriate scale factor (and conversion to a symmetric matrix) these are the conditional variance-covariance

I have an interesting lme - problem. The data is part of the Master Thesis of my friend, and she had some problems analysing this data, until one of her Jurors proposed to use linear mixed-effect models. I'm trying to help her since she has no experience with R. I'm very used to R but have very few experience with lme. The group calls of one species of parrot were recorded at many

Dear R users, I have a question about the patterned variance-covariance structure for the random effects in linear mixed effect model. I am reading section 4.2.2 of "Mixed-Effects Models in S and S-Plus" by Jose Pinheiro and Douglas Bates. There is an example of defining a compound symmetry variance-covariance structure for the random effects in a split-plot experiment on varieties of

Dear R-users, I have longitudinal data and would like to fit a model where both the variance-covariance matrix of the random effects and the residual variance are conditional on a (binary) grouping variable. I guess the model would have the following form (in hierarchical notation) Yi|bi,k ~ N(XiB+Zibi, sigmak*Ident) bi|k ~ N(0, Dk) K~Bernoulli(p) I can obtain different sigmas (sigma0 and

Hi, I have searched the archives and can't quite confirm the answer to this. I appreciate your time... I have 4 treatments (fixed) and I would like to know if there is a significant difference in metal volume (metal) between the treatments. The experiment has 5 blocks (random) in each treatment and no block is repeated across treatments. Within each plot there are varying numbers of

Hi, I performed an experiment where I raised different families coming from two different source populations, where each family was split up into a different treatments. After the experiment I measured several traits on each individual. To test for an effect of either treatment or source as well as their interaction, I used a linear mixed effect model with family as random factor, i.e.

Hello R users- I am new to R, and tried searching the archives and literature for an answer to this - please be patient if I missed something obvious. I am fitting a logistic regression model, and would like to include variance functions (specifically the varIdent function). I cannot figure out how to do this either in glmmPQL (or something similar) for the model with random effects, or in glm

Greetings, I have a meta-analysis problem in which I have fixed effects regression coefficients (and estimated standard errors) from identical models fit to different data sets. I would like to use these results to create pooled estimated regression coefficients and estimated standard errors for these pooled coefficients. In particular, I would like to estimate the model \beta_{i} = \mu +

Dear R-help, I am trying to set up linear mixed effects models in R using the (recommended) nlme package (R version 2.3.1 on a Linux platform). When trying to reproduce an example from Jose Pinheiro & Douglas Bates (2000, p 210) I get the following error message (code to produce message pasted as well): library("nlme") data("Orthodont") vf1Ident <- varIdent(