similar to: Overdispersed poisson - negative observation

Dear R users I have been looking for functions that can deal with overdispersed poisson models. According to actuarial literature (England & Verall, Stochastic Claims Reserving in General Insurance , Institute of Actiuaries 2002) this can be handled through the use of quasi likelihoods instead of normal likelihoods. However, we see them frequently in this type of data, and we would like to

I am resubmitting this to r-bugs, since Thomas Lumley indicates that it might be an error: On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Thomas Lumley wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, halvorsen wrote: > > > Hola! > > > > I have the following simple function: > > > > > testcar > > function(pow){ > > ob <- glm(Pound~CG+Age+Vage,data=car,weights=No, > >

Dear list, I'm trying to mimic the analysis of Wedderburn (1974) as cited by McCullagh and Nelder (1989) on p.328-332. This is the leaf-blotch on barley example, and the data is available in the `faraway' package. Wedderburn suggested using the variance function mu^2(1-mu)^2. This variance function isn't readily available in R's `quasi' family object, but it seems to me

This is not so much a bug as an infelicity in the code that can easily be fixed. The initialize expression in the quasi family function is, (uniformly for all links and all variance functions): initialize <- expression({ n <- rep.int(1, nobs) mustart <- y + 0.1 * (y == 0) }) This is inappropriate (and often fails) for variance function "mu(1-mu)".

This is a basics beginner question. I attempted fitting a a Poisson GLM to data that is non-integer ( I believe Poisson is suitable in this case, because it is modelling counts of infections, but the data collected are all non-negative numbers with 2 decimal places). My question is, since R doesn't return an error with this glm fitting, is it important that the data is non-integer. How does

Hi, I would like apply different link functions from Aranda-Ordaz (1981) family to large binary dataset (n = 2000). The existing links in glm for binomial data (logit, probit, cloglog) are not adequate for my data, and I need to test some other transformations. Is it possible to do this in R? And how? Thank you for your help, /Sharon

I have been trying to write a function for the following problem: Suppose I have three vectors a,b,c of different lengths: e.g. a=c(a1,a2,a3,...) where a[i] form the basis of our function variables: if we define a table for example: and define the fn(x) <-function{..sum(argument)..} where x<-c(a,b,c) so that we can maximise fn(x) as:

Hello, with OpenSSH_2.3.0p1 running in HP-UX 11.00 I noticed that the "SD commands" (like "swcopy") produce the following error when being logged in via SSH: ERROR: RPC exception: "Who are you failed (dce / rpc)" 11/29/00 11:20:18 MET Ideas? Regards, Ulrich P.S. Not subscribed to the list

Dear R-users, Earlier this year I posted a message to this list regarding negative binomial mixed models in R. It was suggested that the program I had written should be turned into an R-package. This has now been done, in collaboration with David Fournier and Anders Nielsen. The R-package glmmADMB provides the following GLMM framework: - Negative binomial or Poisson responses. - Zero-inflation

I am wondering if stepAIC in the MASS library may be used for model selection in an overdispersed Poisson situation. What I thought of doing was to get an estimate of the overdispersion parameter phi from fitting a model with all or most of the available predictors (we have a large number of observations so this should not be problematical) and then use stepAIC with scale = phi. Should this

Information on package 'aod' Description: Package: aod Version: 1.1-2 Date: 2005-06-08 Title: Analysis of Overdispersed Data Author: Matthieu Lesnoff <matthieu.lesnoff at cirad.fr> and Renaud Lancelot <renaud.lancelot at cirad.fr> Maintainer: Renaud Lancelot <renaud.lancelot at cirad.fr> Depends: R (>=

Information on package 'aod' Description: Package: aod Version: 1.1-2 Date: 2005-06-08 Title: Analysis of Overdispersed Data Author: Matthieu Lesnoff <matthieu.lesnoff at cirad.fr> and Renaud Lancelot <renaud.lancelot at cirad.fr> Maintainer: Renaud Lancelot <renaud.lancelot at cirad.fr> Depends: R (>=

Dear all, I am fitting an nonlinear glm() using optim() by first minimising glm(resp~ var1 + var2, family=binomial, data=data)$deviance where var1= exp(-a1*dist1), and var2= exp(-a2*dist2), where a1 and a2 are parameters and dist1 and dist2 are independent variables. Next, I calculate the value of var1 (and var2) by plugging in the value of al1 (and al2) that minimises deviance, and fit

Hi all, First, a quick thank you for R; it's amazing. I am trying to fit models for a count dataset following the overdispersed logisitic regression approach outlined in Baggerly et al. (BMC Bioinformatics, 5:144; Annotated R code is given at the end of the paper) but R is returning an error with the data below. Any help in understanding or overcoming this obstacle is appreciated.

Hi all, I have the following data: rep1_treat rep2_treat rep1_control rep2_control 2 3 4 5 100 20 98 54 0 1 2 3 23 32 27

dear list! i am running an anlysis on proportion data using binomial (quasibinomial family) error structure. My data comprises of two continuous vars, body size and range size, as well as of feeding guild, nest placement, nest type and foragig strata as factors. I hope to model with these variables the preference of primary forests (#successes) by certain bird species. My code therefore looks

I would like to try a simple parametric bootstrap, but unfortunately (stupidly?) my models are "overdispersed" gams & glms. I'm hoping for a function that generates overdispersed poisson or negative binomial data with a given mean, scale (& shape parameter). The loose definition I'm using is overdispersed poisson produces integer values with variance=const*mean &

Hi, I have to analyse the number of provisioning trips to nestlings according to a number of biological and environmental factors. I was thinking of building a mixed-effects model with species and nestid as random effects, using a Poisson distribution, but the data are overdispersed (variance/mean = 5). I then thought of using a mixed-effects model with negative binomial distribution, but I have

I wrote something to check for duplicate rows in a data frame, but it is too inefficient. Is there a way to do this without the nested loops? This code correctly indicates rows 1-7, 1-8, 2-9 and 7-8 are duplicates. > m <- matrix(c(1,1,1,1,1, 2,2,2,2,2, 6,6,6,6,6, 3,3,3,3,3, 4,4,4,4,4, 5,5,5,5,5, 1,1,1,1,1, 1,1,1,1,1, 2,2,2,2,2, 7,7,7,7,7), ncol=5, byrow=TRUE) > df <- data.frame(m)

I am creating habitat selection models for caribou and other species with data collected from GPS collars. In my current situation the radio-collars recorded the locations of 30 caribou every 6 hours. I am then comparing resources used at caribou locations to random locations using logistic regression (standard habitat analysis). The data is therefore highly autocorrelated and this causes Type