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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

Hi, I'm new to R and GLMMs, and I've been unable to find the answers to my questions by trawling through the R help archives. I'm hoping someone here can help me. I'm running an analysis on Seedling survival (count data=Poisson distribution) on restoration sites, and my main interest is in determining whether the Nutrients (N) and water absorbing polymer Gel (G) additions to the

Hi, I'm new to R and GLMMs, and I've been unable to find the answers to my questions by trawling through the R help archives. I'm hoping someone here can help me. I'm running an analysis on Seedling survival (count data=Poisson distribution) on restoration sites, and my main interest is in determining whether the Nutrients (N) and water absorbing polymer Gel (G) additions to 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, I am trying to find a function that returns simply the weights and points of an n point gauss hermite integeration, so that I can use them to fit a non-standard likelihood. I have found some documentation for the function 'gauss.hermite' written by jim lindley, but can't find the actual binary on CRAN I'm aware there are lots of functions like glmm, glmmML etc to fit mixed

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

Greetings. Here is sample code, with some comments. It shows how I can simulate data and estimate glm with binomial family when there is no individual level random error, but when I add random error into the linear predictor, I have a difficult time getting reasonable estimates of the model parameters or the variance component. There are no clusters here, just individual level responses, so

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'm trying to use the glmmML package on a Windows machine. When I try to install the package, I get the message: > {pkg <- select.list(sort(.packages(all.available = TRUE))) + if(nchar(pkg)) library(pkg, character.only=TRUE)} Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) : unable to load shared library

Do Users of Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models Know Whether Their Software Really Works? Lesaffre et. al. (Appl. Statist. (2001) 50, Part3, pp 325-335) analyzed some simple clinical trials data using a logistic random effects model. Several packages and methods MIXOR, SAS NLMIXED were employed. They reported obtaining very different parameter estimates and P

Dear all, This question is basic but I am stumped. After running the below, I receive the message: "non-integer #successes in a binomial glm!" model1 <- glmmML(y~Brood.Size*Density+Date.Placed+Species+Placed.Emerging+Year+rate.of.parperplot, data = data, cluster= data$Patch, family=binomial(link="logit")) My response variable is sex ratio, and I have learned quickly not

Dear R-users, I'd like to announce the release of the new package JM (JM_0.1-0 available from CRAN) for the joint modelling of longitudinal and time-to-event data. The package has a single model-fitting function called jointModel(), which accepts as main arguments a linear mixed effects object fit returned by function lme() of package nlme, and a survival object fit returned by either

Dear R-users, I'd like to announce the release of the new package JM (JM_0.1-0 available from CRAN) for the joint modelling of longitudinal and time-to-event data. The package has a single model-fitting function called jointModel(), which accepts as main arguments a linear mixed effects object fit returned by function lme() of package nlme, and a survival object fit returned by either

Hello! I am using glmmML for a logitic regression with random effect. I use the posterior.mode as an estimate for the random effects. These can be very different from the estimates obtained using SAS , NLMIXED in the random with out= option. (all the fixed and standard error of random effect estimators are almost identical) Can someone explain to me why is that. The codes I use: R:

Hi, I have a spatial data set with many observations (~50,000) and would like to keep as much data as possible. There is spatial dependence, so I am attempting a mixed model in R with a spherical variogram defining the correlation as a function of distance between points. I have tried nlme, lme, glmmML, and glmmPQL. In all case the matrix needed (seems to be (N^2)/2 - N) is too large for my

Version 0.98-1 of the lme4 package and of the Matrix package are now on CRAN. This version provides the adaptive Gauss-Hermite quadrature (AGQ) method for fitting generalized linear mixed models. A new generic function mcmcsamp has been added with a method for objects in the "lmer" (linear mixed model fit or generalized linear mixed-effects model fit) class. This function provides a

Version 0.98-1 of the lme4 package and of the Matrix package are now on CRAN. This version provides the adaptive Gauss-Hermite quadrature (AGQ) method for fitting generalized linear mixed models. A new generic function mcmcsamp has been added with a method for objects in the "lmer" (linear mixed model fit or generalized linear mixed-effects model fit) class. This function provides a

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