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Spencer Thanks for your thoughts on this. I did a bit of work and did end up with a method (more a trick), but it did work. I am certain there are better ways to do this, but here is how I resolved the issue. The integral I need to evaluate is \begin{equation} \frac{\int_c^{\infty} p(x|\theta)f(\theta)d\theta} {\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} p(x|\theta)f(\theta)d\theta} \end{equation} Where

I know of no existing functions for estimating the parameters of this model using MCMC or MML. Many years ago, I wrote code to estimate this model using marginal maximum likelihood. I wrote this based on the using nlminb and gauss-hermite quadrature points from statmod. I could not find that code to share with you, but I do have code for estimating the 3PL in this way and you could modify the

A new version, 0.65-1, of glmmML is now on CRAN. It is a major rewrite of the inner structures, so frequent updates (bug fixes) may be expected for some time. News: * The Laplace and adaptive Gauss-Hermite approximations to the log likelihood function are fully implemented. The Laplace method is made the default. It should give results you can compare to the results from 'lmer' (for the

A new version, 0.65-1, of glmmML is now on CRAN. It is a major rewrite of the inner structures, so frequent updates (bug fixes) may be expected for some time. News: * The Laplace and adaptive Gauss-Hermite approximations to the log likelihood function are fully implemented. The Laplace method is made the default. It should give results you can compare to the results from 'lmer' (for the

Hi Folks, I think I have searched exhaustively, including, of course R-help (D. Bates, S. Graves, and others) and but I remain uncertain about testing fixed effects with lmer(..., family=binomial). I gather that mcmcsamp does not work with Do we rely exclusively on z values of model parameters, or could we use anova() with likelihood ratios, AIC and BIC, with (or without)

Hi All, I am trying to use A Gaussian quadrature over the interval (-infty,infty) with weighting function W(x)=exp(-(x-mu)^2/sigma) to estimate an integral. Is there a way to do it in R? Is there a function already implemented which uses such weighting function. I have been searching in the statmode package and I found the function "gauss.quad(100, kind="hermite")" which uses

I have uploaded a new version (0.30-2) of glmmML to CRAN today. This is a rather extensive upgrade, mostly internal. Adaptive Gauss-Hermite quadrature (GHQ) is now used for the evaluation of the integrals in the log likelihood function. The user can choose the number of points (default is 16), I _think_ that choosing 1 point will result in a Laplace approximation. The integrals in the score and

I have uploaded a new version (0.30-2) of glmmML to CRAN today. This is a rather extensive upgrade, mostly internal. Adaptive Gauss-Hermite quadrature (GHQ) is now used for the evaluation of the integrals in the log likelihood function. The user can choose the number of points (default is 16), I _think_ that choosing 1 point will result in a Laplace approximation. The integrals in the score and

Dear R users I am trying to obtain p-values for (quasi)poisson lmer models, using Markov-chain Monte Carlo sampling and the command summary. > > My problems is that p values derived from both these methods are totally different. My question is (1) there a bug in my code and > (2) How can I proceed, left with these uncertainties in the estimations of > the p-values? > > Below is

I've written a series of functions that evaluates an integral from -inf to a or b to +inf using equally spaced quadrature points along a normal distribution from -10 to +10 moving in increments of .01. These functions are working and give very good approximations, but I think they are computationally wasteful as I am evaluating the function at *many* points. Instead, I would prefer to use

Hi all, Does anybody know any function that performs gaussian adapative quadrature integration of univariate functions? Thanks in advance, Regards, Caio __________________________________________________ [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi R Users, I'm going to estimate via. ML the parameters in Poisson Lognormal model. The model is: x | lambda ~ Poisson(lambda) lambda ~ Lognormal(a,b) Unfortunately, I haven't found a useful package allowing for such estimation. I tried to use "poilog" package, but there is no equations and it's hard to understand what exactly this package really does. Using it I get the

Dear All, I wonder if there is a way to fit a generalized linear mixed models (for repeated binomial data) via a direct Maximum Likelihood Approach. The "glmm" in the "repeated" package (Lindsey), the "glmmPQL" in the "MASS" package (Ripley) and "glmmGIBBS" (Myle and Calyton) are not using the full maximum likelihood as I understand. The

Hi folks, This is really minor but to someone not familiar with the various tentacles of the lmer package it could be really annoying. I was trying to plot the posterior density of the fixed effect parameters of a lmer model, > hr.mcmc = mcmcsamp(hr.lmer, n=50000) > densityplot(hr.mcmc, plot.points=F) There is this error, "Error in densityplot(hr.mcmc, plot.points = F) : no

Hi there, I am using SAS Proc NLMIXED to maximize a likelihood with multivariate normal random effects. An example is the two part random effects model for repeated measures semi-continous data with a cluster at 0. I use the "model y ~ general(loglike)" statement in Proc NLMIXED, so I can specify a general log likelihood function constructed by SAS programming statements. Then the

I have constructed the function mml2 (below) based on the likelihood function described in the minimal latex I have pasted below for anyone who wants to look at it. This function finds parameter estimates for a basic Rasch (IRT) model. Using the function without the gradient, using either nlminb or optim returns the correct parameter estimates and, in the case of optim, the correct standard

This is to announce the new R-package ?ordinal? that implements cumulative link (mixed) models for ordinal (ordered categorical) data (http://www.cran.r-project.org/package=ordinal/). The main features are: - scale (multiplicative) as well as location (additive) effects - nominal effects for a subset of the predictors (denoted partial proportional odds when the link is the logistic) - structured

This is to announce the new R-package ?ordinal? that implements cumulative link (mixed) models for ordinal (ordered categorical) data (http://www.cran.r-project.org/package=ordinal/). The main features are: - scale (multiplicative) as well as location (additive) effects - nominal effects for a subset of the predictors (denoted partial proportional odds when the link is the logistic) - structured

A new version of 'eha' (0.92-1) is now on CRAN. From the ChangeLog: 0.92-1 (January 7, 2004) * mlreg: Geometric distribution (i.e., constant baseline discrete hazard) added. Not for frailty models, yet (on the TODO list). * mlreg: New argument, 'n.points', added to 'control'. Controls the number of points used in the Gauss-Hermite quadrature. * mlreg: Stricter

A new version of 'eha' (0.92-1) is now on CRAN. From the ChangeLog: 0.92-1 (January 7, 2004) * mlreg: Geometric distribution (i.e., constant baseline discrete hazard) added. Not for frailty models, yet (on the TODO list). * mlreg: New argument, 'n.points', added to 'control'. Controls the number of points used in the Gauss-Hermite quadrature. * mlreg: Stricter