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Hi Folks, I'm trying to understand the model specification formalities for 'lme', and the documentation is leaving me a bit confused. Specifically, using the example dataset 'Orthodont' in the 'nlme' package, first I use the invocation given in the example shown by "?lme": > fm1 <- lme(distance ~ age, data = Orthodont) # random is ~ age Despite the

Hi all! I am working on a nested lme model with one fixed effect ("treatment", which 3 levels) and two random effects for "Individuals" (four of them) within "treatment" and "replicate -2 levels-" within "individual" within "treatment". For doing so, I´ve been trying to create a factor for Individual%in%Treatment, say IT by

Hello, I have an unbalanced mixed model design with two fixed effects "site" (2 levels) and "timeOfDay" (4 levels) and two random effects "day" (3 consecutive days) and "trap" (6 unique traps, 3 per site). The dependent variable is the body length ("BL") of insect larvae from 7 to 29 individuals per trap (104 individuals in total). To account

For anybody who uses ESS with R, how do you invoke the vsize and nsize options when you call R. I can't find any appropriate variables from an apropos. Thanks, Jord -- Jordan Howarth CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences mailto:jordan.howarth at cmis.csiro.au -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read

I am using rw0641. In my continuing quest to understand repeated measures analysis, I again return to lme. I exported the Potthoff and Roy data Orthodont.dat from S-PLUS 4.5 to avoid capture errors and ran the examples in the R help. I imported the data.frame with data <- read.table("Orthodont.dat",header=T) attach(data) and created the objects Orthodont.fit1 <-

Dear friends. I tried the session below with 10 MB in both vsize and nsize but didn't get the example work. Is this a problem in LME or in me or both or somewhere else or undefined ? R : Copyright 1999, The R Development Core Team Version 0.64.0 Patched (May 3, 1999) R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type

Dear R-help I'm working on a large dataset which I have divided into 20 subsets based on similar features. Each subset consists of observations from different locations and I wish to use the location as a random effect. For each group I want to select regressors by a stepwise procedure and include a random effect on the intercept. I use stepAIC() and lme(). (The lmer()-function doesn't

Dear R-help I'm working on a large dataset which I have divided into 20 subsets based on similar features. Each subset consists of observations from different locations and I wish to use the location as a random effect. For each group I want to select regressors by a stepwise procedure and include a random effect on the intercept. I use stepAIC() and lme(). (The lmer()-function doesn't

Full_Name: Renaud Lancelot Version: Version 2.3.0 (2006-04-24) OS: MS Windows XP Pro SP2 Submission from: (NULL) (82.239.219.108) I think there is a bug in predict.lme, when a polynomial generated by poly() is used as an explanatory variable, and a new data.frame is used for predictions. I guess this is related to * not * using, for predictions, the coefs used in constructing the orthogonal

Hi, lme() users, Can some one tell me how to do this. I model Orthodont with the same G for random variables, but different R{i}'s for boys and girls, so that I can get sigma1_square_hat for boys and sigma2_square_hat for girls. The model is Y{i}=X{i}beta + Z{i}b + e{i} b ~ iid N(0,G) and e{i} ~ iid N(0,R{i}) i=1,2 orth.lme <- lme(distance ~ Sex * age, data=Orthodont, random=~age|Subject,

Using formulas constructed from strings only partially works for me in lme: library(nlme) data(Orthodont) fm2<-lme(as.formula("distance~age"),data=Orthodont,random=~1|Subject) summary(fm2) # works augPred(fm2) # fails #Error in inherits(object, "formula") : #Argument "object" is missing, with no default I assume that my use of as.formula is wrong, but

All, I'm trying to create an augPred plot in the nlme library, similar to the plot on p.43 of Pinheiro & Bates (Mixed Effects Models in S and S-Plus) for their Pixel data. My data structure is the same as the example but I still get the error msg below. > comp.adj.UKV <- groupedData(adj.UKV ~ Time | Patient_no/Lisinopril, data = comp.adj.UKV.frm, order.groups = F) >

Dear r-devel list members, I'm posting this message here because it concerns the nlme package, which is maintained by R-core. The problem I'm about to describe is somewhere between a bug and a feature request, and so I thought it a good idea to ask here rather posting a bug report to the R bugzilla. I was made aware (by Ben Bolker) that the car::Anova() method for "lme"

Hi, R users, I'm using the "lme" function in R to estimate a 2 level mixed effects model, in which the size of the subject groups are different. It turned out that It takes forever for R to converge. I also tried the same thing in SPSS and SPSS can give the results out within 20 minutes. Anyone can give me some advice on the lme function in R, especially why R does not converge?

dear all, I would like to get the lme call without fitting the relevant model. library(nlme) data(Orthodont) fm1 <- lme(distance ~ age, random=list(Subject=~age),data = Orthodont) To get fm1$call without fitting the model I use call(): my.cc<-call("lme.formula", fixed= distance ~ age, random = list(Subject = ~age)) However the two calls are not the same (apart from the data

Dear all, I am starting to use the lme package (and plan to teach a course based on it next semester...). To understand what lme is doing precisely, I used balanced datasets described in Pinheiro and Bates and tried to compare the lme outputs to that of aov. Here is what I obtained: > data(Machines) > summary(aov(score~Machine+Error(Worker/Machine),data=Machines)) Error: Worker

Hi everyone, I have a quick and probably easy question about lme for this list. Say, for instance you want to model growth in pituitary distance as a function of age in the Orthodont dataset. fm1 = lme(distance ~ I(age-8), random = ~ 1 + I(age-8) | Subject, data = Orthodont) You notice that there is substantial variability in the intercepts (initial distance) for people at 8 years, and that

Hello, How do I get the standard deviations for the random effects out of the lme object? I feel like there's probably a simple way of doing this, but I can't see it. Using the first example from the documentation: > fm1 <- lme(distance ~ age, data = Orthodont) # random is ~ age > fm1 Linear mixed-effects model fit by REML Data: Orthodont Log-restricted-likelihood:

tl;dr anova.lme() claims to provide sums of squares, but it doesn't. And some names are misspelled in ?lme. I can submit all this stuff as a bug report if that's preferred. ?anova.lme says: When only one fitted model object is present, a data frame with the sums of squares, numerator degrees of freedom, denominator degrees of freedom, F-values, and P-values The output of fm1

Kia ora I'm a using lme (from nlme package) with data similar to the Orthodont dataset and am getting positive log-likelihoods (>100). This seems usual and I wondered if someone could offer a possible explanation. I can supply a sample dataset if requested, but I feel almost certain that this question has been asked and answered recently. However, I can find no trace of it in the mail