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Dear friends, I have asked last few days about cross-random effects using PQL, but I have not receive any answer because might my question was not clear. My question was about analysing the salamander mating data using PQL. This data contain cross-random effects for (male) and for (female). By opining MASS and lme library. I wrote this code sala.glmm <- glmmPQL(fixed=y~WSf*WSM,

Dear friends, I have asked last few days about cross-random effects using PQL, but I have not receive any answer because might my question was not clear. My question was about analysing the salamander mating data using PQL. This data contain cross-random effects for (male) and for (female). By opining MASS and lme library. I wrote this code sala.glmm <- glmmPQL(fixed=y~WSf*WSM,

Hi all - R2.0.1, OS X Perhaps while there is some discussion of lme going on..... I am trying to execute a glmm using glmmPQL from the MASS libray, using the example data set from McCullagh and Nelder's (1989, p442) table 14.4 (it happens to be the glmm example for GENSTAT as well). The data are binary, representing mating success (1,0) for crosses between males and females from two

Dear R users, I'm trying to specify a generalized linear mixed model in R, basically a Poisson model to describe monthly series of counts in different regions. My aim is to fit subject-specific curves, modelling a non-linear trend for each region through random effects for linear splines components (see Durban et al, Stat Med 2005, or " Semiparametric regression" by Ruppert et al,

Dear R-help group, How can I define a lme with 3 factors(a,b,c), where c is nested in b, and a is crossed with b/c? I think that: lme(response ~ ..., data = Data, random = pdBlocked(list(pdIdent(~ a - 1), pdIdent(~ b - 1)))) is one part of the answer and: lme(response~..., data=Data, random=~1|b/c) is the other part of the answer but how can I combine them?? Could anybody please help

Dear all, I am trying to fit a model with crossed random effects using lme. In this experiment, I have been measuring oxygen consumption (mlmin) in bird nestlings, originating from three different treatments (treat), in a respirometer with 7 different channels (ch). I have also measured body mass (mass) for these birds. id nest treat year mlmin mass ch hack 1EP51711 17

Hi, I have a data set on germination and plant growth with the following variables: dataset=fm mass (response) sub (fixed effect) moist (fixed effect) pop (fixed effect) mum (random effect nested within population) iheight (covariate) plot (random effect- whole plot factor for split-plot design). I want to see if moist or sub interacts with mum for any of the pops, but I am getting an error

Hi, all, I have a question about random effects model. I am dealing with a three-factor experiment dataset. The response variable y is modeled against three factors: Samples, Operators, and Runs. The experimental design is as follow: 4 samples were randomly chosen from a large pool of test samples. Each of the 4 samples was analyzed by 4 operators, randomly selected from a group of

Moi! I was helping to teach a course on mixed models this week, and we came across a problem with coding more than one random effect in lme when they aren't nested. As an example, suppose we have an experiment where we sample moths from several populations, and place the moths on different trees, and measure a trait (in this case survival of offspring, but that's less important). We

Hello R users, I am trying to run a model with a binary response variable (nesting success: 0 failure, 1 success) and 8 fixed terms. Nesting success was examined in 72 cases in 34 territories (TER) during a 6 study years. Territories are nested within 14 patches (PATCH). I want to run a model taking into account these nested factors and repeated observation. To do this, I assume that the best

I am working on a project where we start with start with 2 long, equal-length vectors, massage them in various ways, and end up with a function mapping one interval to another. I'll call that function "f1." The last step in R is to generate f1 as the value of the approxfun function. I would like to put f1 into a package, but without having the package redo the creation of

Hi all, I've been attempting to fit a logistic glmm using glmmPQL in order to estimate variance components for a score test, where the model is of the form logit(mu) = X*a+ Z1*b1 + Z2*b2. Z1 and Z2 are actually reduced rank square root matrices of the assumed covariance structure (up to a constant) of random effects c1 and c2, respectively, such that b1 ~ N(0,sig.1^2*I) and c1 ~

Dear All, I would like to ask you to help me with my memeory. I remember using some function that would list all the possible methods I could apply to an object. Say, if I had an object of class=lme, it would tell me that that I could do stuff like qqnorm(myobjct), or VarCorr(myobject). In general, a very complete list. I though this list of all possible methods would pop out by typing

I've posted the following to R-help on May 15. It has reproducible R code for real data -- and a real (academic, i.e unpaid) consultion background. I'd be glad for some insight here, mainly not for myself. In the mean time, we've learned that it is to be expected for anova(*, "marginal") to be contrast dependent, but still are glad for advice if you have experience. Thank

Hello, I work with a mixed model with 4 predictor variables Time, Size, Charge, Density and Size, Charge, Density are factors, all with two levels. Hence I want to put their interactions with Time into the model. But, I have two data sets (Replication 1 and 2) and I want that Replication is random effect. Here is my code: knots <- default.knots(Time) z <- outer(Time, knots, "-")

Hello all, In lme4 if you want to model two non-nested random effects you code it like this: mod1 <- lmer(y~x + (1|randomvar1) + (1|randomvar2)) How would you go about to model something similar in nlme? In my database I have two variables for which I have repeated measures, lets call them "individual" and "year". But none of the "individuals" were measured in

Three related questions on LMEs and GLMMs in R: (1) Is there a way to fix the dispersion parameter (at 1) in either glmmPQL (MASS) or GLMM (lme4)? Note: lme does not let you fix any variances in advance (presumably because it wants to "profile out" an overall sigma^2 parameter) and glmmPQL repeatedly calls lme, so I couldn't see how glmmPQL would be able to fix the dispersion

Dear R-listers I wonder if someone can help me with the syntax for the random effect in glmmPQL()? I have a data set with a response variable "y" (counts), two dependent variables: "treat" (4 levels) and "site" (2 levels). The latter, I want to use as a random variable. How do I specify this in the function? Is it like this:

I have been using lme from nlme to do a 3-way anova with all the effects treated as random. I was wondering if someone could direct me to an example of how to do this using lmer from lme4. I have 3 main effects, tim, trt, ctr, and all the interaction effects tim*trt*ctr. The response variable is ge. Here is my lme code: dat <-

Dear R users I have built several glmm models using glmmPQL in the following structure: m1<-glmmPQL(dev~env*har*treat+dens, random = ~1|pop/rep, family = Gamma) (full script below, data attached) I have tried all the methods I can find to obtain some sort of model fit score or to compare between models using following the deletion of terms (i.e. AIC, logLik, anova.lme(m1,m2)), but I