similar to: MCMCpack gelman.plot and gelman.diag

Deal all, as MCMClogit does not allow for the specification of several chains, I have run my model 3 times with different random number seeds and differently dispersed multivariate normal priors. For example: res1 = MCMClogit(y~x,b0=0,B0=0.001,data=mydat, burnin=500, mcmc=5500, seed=1234, thin=5) res2 = MCMClogit(y~x,b0=1,B0=0.01,data=mydat, burnin=500, mcmc=5500, seed=5678, thin=5) res3 =

Dear friends, I run the Gelman-Rubin Convergence test for a MCMC object I have and I got the following result Multivariate psrf 1.07+0i, What does this mean? I guess (if I am not mistaken) that I should get a psrf close to 1.00 but what is 1.07+0i? Is that convergence or something else? Jorge [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear Friends, I am trying to use the gelman-rubin convergence test. I generated a matrix samp[10,000x86] with the gibbs sampler. the test requires the creation of "mcmc" objects. Since I don't know how to define samp as a "mcmc" object, I tried to create one mcmc object by means of the mcmc() function. With this function I tried to create a mcmc object dul from samp but I

Dear R list, I have written some code to produce several wireframe plots in a panel. They look good, but when I try to create a pdf, many (but not all) of the details I have specified are not reproduced. For example, the line width I have specified is not reproduced, and neither are the font sizes for the axis labels. I'm an R novice, so I could really use some guidance. Here is the code I am

Dear R users, I have a linear model of the kind outcome ~ treatment + covariate where 'treatment' is a factor with three levels ("0", "1", and "2"), and the covariate is continuous. Treatments "1" and "2" both have regression coefficients significantly different from 0 when using treatment contrasts with treatment "0" as the

Hi, I am trying to recreate the right graph on page 524 of Gelman's 2006 paper "Prior distributions for variance parameters in hierarchical models" in Bayesian Analysis, 3, 515-533. I am only interested, however, in recreating the portion of the graph for the overlain prior density for the half-Cauchy with scale 25 and not the posterior distribution. However, when I try:

Hello, I'd like to perform a regression using MCMCregress (MCMCpack). One variable therefore should be a function rather than a variable: I want to use X as an input and X should be defined as a random number between to values. Therefore I want to use the function runif like: X <-(1, Xa, Xb) but it seems that runif doesn't allow to use vectors. So I think I've to calculate the new

Dear R users, Thanks in advance. I am Deb, Statistician at NSW Department of Commerce, Sydney. I am using R 2.9.1 on Windows XP. This has reference to the package “MCMCpack”. My objective is to select a better model using various alternatives. I have provided here an example code from MCMCpack.pdf. The matrix of Bayes Factors is: model1 model2 model3 model1 1.000 14.08

Dear, I'm trying to run diagnostics on MCMC analysis (fitting a log-linear model to rates data). I'm getting an error message when trying Gelman-Rubin shrink factor plot: >gelman.plot(out) Error in chol.default(W) : the leading minor of order 2 is not positive definite I take it that somewhere, somehow a matrix is singular, but how can that be remedied? My code: library(rjags)

I am using -mice- for multiple imputation and would like to use the gelman diagnostic in -coda- to assess the convergence of my imputations. However, gelman.diag requires an mcmc list as input. van Buuren and Groothuis-Oudshoorn (2011) recommend running mice step-by-step to assess convergence (e.g. imp2 <- mice.mids(imp1, maxit = 3, print = FALSE) ) but this creates mids objects. How can I

Hello, thank you very much for your previous answers about the C++ code. I am interested in the application of the Gibbs Sampler in the IRT models, so in the function MCMCirt1d and MCMCirtkd. I've found the C++ source codes, as you suggested, but I cannot find anything about the Gibbs Sampler. All the files are for the Metropolis algorithm. Maybe I am not able to read them very well, by the

I decided to update my packages and then had a problem with loading the Matrix package http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/Matrix_0.9975-9.zip This is what happened when I tried to load it in: > library("Matrix") Error in importIntoEnv(impenv, impnames, ns, impvars) : object 'Logic' is not exported by 'namespace:methods' Error:

Hi, all. I'm trying to automate some regression operations in R but am confused about how to evaluate expressoins that are expressed as character strings. For example: y <- ifelse (rnorm(10)>0, 1, 0) sex <- rnorm(10) age <- rnorm(10) test <- as.data.frame (cbind (y, sex, age)) # this works fine: glm (y ~ sex + I(age^2), data=test, family=binomial(link="logit"),

I was writing unit tests for my models for a while. After that I was tweaking around and again continued writing unit tests. Earlier all my unit tests were working - successfully. But now WHen I run them, it gives me Loaded suite unit/post_test Started EEEE Finished in 0.112698 seconds. 1) Error: test_presence_of_body(PostTest): NoMethodError: undefined method `key?'' for

I want to write a function to standardize regression predictors, which will require me to do some character-string manipulation to parse the variables in a call to lm() or glm(). For example, consider the call lm (y ~ female + I(age^2) + female:black + (age + education)*female). I want to be able to parse this to pick out the input variables ("female", "age",

Is there a quick way to fit student-t regressions (that is, a regression with t-distributed error, ideally with the degrees-of-freedom parameter estimated from the data)? I can do it easily enough in Bugs, or I can program the log-likelihood in R and optimize using optim(), but an R version (if it's already been written by somebody) would be convenient, especially for teaching purposes.

Hi, I know this question has come up before, but I couldn''t find a satisfying answer. Maybe I didn''t look well enough, so any pointers to old messages regarding this subject would be welcome too. I need some way to pass multiple ids to a resource. Something like /posts/13,14 If I do this I have to manually split the id on ","s in the action, and use post_path([post1,

Thanks to some help by Doug Bates (and the updated version of the Matrix package), I've refined my question about fitting nested and non-nested factors in lmer(). I can get it to work in linear regression but it crashes in logistic regression. Here's my example: # set up the predictors n.age <- 4 n.edu <- 4 n.rep <- 100 n.state <- 50 n <- n.age*n.edu*n.rep age.id

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 While I'm not an R expert, I have used R on Windows XP. Now I've moved to Ubuntu (Intrepid), and I'm trying to configure R to work with the Gelman and Hill _Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models_. So far, it's not working. I start by following the instructions for installing arm and BRugs at

Hello, just to follow up a question from last week. Here what I've done so far (here an example): library(MCMCpack) Y=c(15,14,23,18,19,9,19,13) X1=c(0.2,0.6,0.45,0.27,0.6,0.14,0.1,0.52) X2a=c(17,22,21,18,19,25,8,19) X2b=c(22,22,29,34,19,26,17,22) X2 <- function()runif(length(X2a), X2a, X2b) model1 <- MCMCregress(Y~X1+X2()) summary(model1) but I am not sure if my X2-function is