similar to: GLMMs & LMEs: dispersion parameters, fixed variances, design matrices

Dear All, I am analysing a dataset on levels of herbivory in seedlings in an experimental setup in a rainforest. I have seven classes/categories of seedling damage/herbivory that I want to analyse, modelling each separately. There are twenty maternal trees, with eight groups of seedlings around each. Each tree has a TreeID, which I use as the random effect (blocking factor). There are two

Dear R-listers, I am working with generalized linear mixed models to quantify the variance due to two nested random factors, but have hit a snag in the interpretation of variance components. Despite my best efforts with Venables & Ripley 2002, Fahrmeir & Tutz 2001, R-help archives, Google, and other eminent sources (i.e. local R gurus), I have not been able to find a definitive answer

Dear all, I'm working with count data following over-dispersed poisson distribution and have to work with mixed-models on them (like proc GENMOD on SAS sys.). I'm still not to sure about what function to use. It seems to me that a glmmPQL will do the job I want, but I'll be glad if people who worked on this type of data can share what they learned. Thanks for your time. simon

Hi - I am using R version 2.13.0. I have run several GLMMs using the glmmPQL function to model the proportion of fish caught in one net to the total caught in both nets by length. I started with a polynomial regression full model with three length terms: l, l^2, and l^3 (l=length). The length terms and intercept were the fixed effects and the random effect was a paired haul (n=18).

Hi, I have a couple of questions related to glmm (glmmPQL in MASS and GLMM in lme4). 1) is there some way do obtain the fitted values by group, similar to: > predict(dbd.glmmPQL, dbd.cytdens, + type="response", level=0) where dbd.glmmPQL is the fitted model and dbd.cytdens is a data frame with a subset of the factors? 2) when I double-click on a saved workspace

Dear listers, glmmPQL (package MASS) is given to work by repeated call to lme. In the classical outputs glmmPQL the Variance Structure is given as " fixed weights, Formula: ~invwt". The script shows that the function varFixed() is used, though the place where 'invwt' is defined remains unclear to me. I wonder if there is an easy way to specify another variance

I am trying to find a way to analyze a "simple" mixed model with two levels of a treatment, a random blocking factor, and (wait for it) negative binomial count distributions as the response variable. As far as I can tell, the currently available R offerings (glmmGibbs, glmmPQL in MASS, and Jim Lindsey's glmm code) aren't quite up to this. From what I have read (e.g.

Hello, I've just carried out my first good-looking model using glmmPQL, and the output makes perfect sense in terms of how it fits with our hypothesis and the graphical representation of the data. However, please could you clarify whether my degrees of freedom are appropriate? I had 106 subjects, each of them was observed about 9 times, creating 882 data points. The subjects were in 3

Dear R-ers, I am just a simple 'end-user' of R and am trying to analyse data with a binary response variable (dead or alive) in relation to weight and sex (of young birds). As some of the birds have the same biological mother, I am using mixed models with the identity of the mother as a random factor. (please, Mick Crawley, when are you going to write a chapter on mixed models with binary

Dear R-ers, I am just a simple 'end-user' of R and am trying to analyse data with a binary response variable (dead or alive) in relation to weight and sex (of young birds). As some of the birds have the same biological mother, I am using mixed models with the identity of the mother as a random factor. (please, Mick Crawley, when are you going to write a chapter on mixed models with binary

Thanks to those who responded to my inquiry about generalized linear mixed models on R and S-plus. Before I summarize the software, I note that there are several ways of doing statistical inference for generalized linear mixed models: (1)Standard maximum likelihood estimation, computationally intensive due to intractable likelihood function (2) Penalized quasi likelihood or similar

For a Monte Carlo study I need to extract from an lme model the estimated standard deviation of a random effect and store it in a vector. If I do a print() or summary() on the model, the number I need is displayed in the Console [it's the 0.1590195 in the output below] >print(fit) >Linear mixed-effects model fit by maximum likelihood > Data: datag2 > Log-likelihood:

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 R users, I am estimating Poisson mixed models using glmmPQL (MASS) and lmer (lme4). We know that glmmPQL do not provide the correct loglikelihood for such models (it gives the loglike of a 'pseudo' or working linear mixed model). I would like to know how the loglike is calculated by lmer. A minor question is: why do glmmPQL and lmer give different degrees-of-freedom for the same

I have a longitudinal data analysis project. There are 10 observations on each of 15 units, and I'm estimating this with randomly varying intercepts along with an AR1 correction for the error terms within units. There is no correlation across units. Blundering around in R for a long time, I found that for linear/gaussian models, I can use either the MASS method glmmPQL (thanks to

Here is a summary of responses to my original email (see my query at the bottom). Thank you to Achim Zeileis , Anders Nielsen, Pierre Kleiber and Dave Fournier who all helped out with advice. I hope that their responses will help some of you too. ***************************************** Check out glm.nb() from package MASS fits negative binomial GLMs.

Dear R HELP, ABOUT glmmPQL and the anova command. Here is an example of a repeated-measures ANOVA focussing on the way starling masses vary according to (i) roost situation and (ii) time (two time points only). library(nlme);library(MASS)

Hi all, I was trying to fit a Gamma hierarchical model using "glmer", but got weird error message that I could not understand. On the other hand, a similar call to the glmmPQL leads to results that are close to what I expect. I also tried to change tha "nAGQ" argument in "glmer", but it did not solve the problem. The model I was fitting has a simple structure - one

Hello all, I would like to fit a mixed effects model, but my response is of the negative binomial (or overdispersed poisson) family. The only (?) package that looks like it can do this is glmm.ADMB (but it cannot run on Mac OS X - please correct me if I am wrong!) [1] I think that glmmML {glmmML}, lmer {Matrix}, and glmmPQL {MASS} do not provide this "family" (i.e. nbinom, or

Dear list, I am having some problems with extracting Variance Components from a random-effects model: I am running a simple random-effects model using lme: model<-lme(y~1,random=~1|groupA/groupB) which returns the output for the StdDev of the Random effects, and model AIC etc as expected. Until yesterday I was using R v. 2.0, and had no problem in calling the variance components of the