similar to: Bug in nlme under version 2.0.0

I'm using the package geepack to fit GEE models. Does anyone know of methods for add1 and drop1 for a 'geeglm' model object, or perhaps a method for extractAIC based on the QIC of Pan 2001? I see there has been some mention of this on R-help a few years ago (RSiteSearch("QIC")). The package does provide an anova method for its model objects, and update() seems to work:

Dear Thomas Lumley, and R-help list members, I have read your article "Network meta-analysis for indirect treatment comparisons" (Statist Med, 2002) with great interest. I found it very helpful that you included the R code to replicate your analysis; however, I have had a problem replicating your example and wondered if you are able to give me a hint. When I use the code from the

I assigned a class the first problem in Pinheiro & Bates, which uses the data set PBIB from the SASmixed package. I have recently downloaded 2.0.1 and its associated packages. On trying library(SASmixed) data(PBIB) library(nlme) plot(PBIB) I get a warning message Warning message: replacing previous import: coef in: namespaceImportFrom(self, asNamespace(ns)) after library(nlme) and a

Hello Everyone- I'm calculating summary statistics on a dataset (~4000 records, observations are not uniformly distributed) using summaryBy and trying to add a column with the number of observations to the output as well. What occurs to me is to use nrow(), but this doesn't appear to be working I'm able to replicate the same results with an example from the summaryBy docs:

Dear list members, I'm interested in showing that within-group statistical dependence is negligible, so I can use ordinary linear models without including random effects. However, I can find no mention of testing a model with vs. without random effects in either Venable & Ripley (2002) or Pinheiro and Bates (2000). Our in-house statisticians are not familiar with this, either,

Hi everyone, I'm using lmer and estimable (from packages lme4 and gmodels respectively) and have the disconcerting happening that when I run exactly the same code, I get different results! In checking this out by running the code 50x, it seems to be that answers may be randomly deviating around those which I get from another stats package (GenStat, using the linear mixed models functionality

Hi, I am having trouble using the lme function to perform a nested ANOVA with a random nested factor. My design is as follows: Location (n=6) (Random) Site nested within each Location (n=12) (2 Sites nested within each Location) (Random) Dependent variable: sp (species abundance) By using the aov function I can generate a nested ANOVA, however this assumes that my nested

Dear R-helpers, When I try > anova(txtE2.lme, txtE2.lme1) Model df AIC BIC logLik Test L.Ratio p-value txtE2.lme 1 10 8590 8638 -4285 txtE2.lme1 2 7 8591 8624 -4288 1 vs 2 6.79 0.0789 > latex(anova(txtE2.lme, txtE2.lme1)) Error: object "n.group" not found I don't even see n.group as one of the arguments of latex() I checked to see >

Hi folks, I am having trouble to plot a mixed model analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). To do so I use the function predict in nlme but the line that is being drawn is totally out of control!!! here is my script (where MASS_S is dry mass and MASS_F is fresh mass): MEN<-read.table("Mentha_lme2.txt", h=T) attach(MEN) lme1<-lme(log(MASS_S)~log(MASS_F)*TREAT, random=~1|INDIV)

Dear members, I would like to switch from nlme to lme4 and try to translate some of my models that worked fine with lme. I have problems with the pdMat classes. Below a toy dataset with a fixed effect F and a random effect R. I gave also 2 similar lme models. The one containing pdLogChol (lme1) is easy to translate (as it is an explicit notation of the default model) The more parsimonious

R2.2 for WinXP, Splus 6.2.1 for HP 9000 Series, HP-UX 11.0. I am trying to get a handle on why the same lme( ) code gives such different answers. My output makes me wonder if the fact that the UNIX box is 64 bits is the reason. The estimated random effects are identical, but the fixed effects are very different. Here is my R code and output, with some columns and rows deleted for space

Hi, I have searched the archives and can't quite confirm the answer to this. I appreciate your time... I have 4 treatments (fixed) and I would like to know if there is a significant difference in metal volume (metal) between the treatments. The experiment has 5 blocks (random) in each treatment and no block is repeated across treatments. Within each plot there are varying numbers of

Dear R-users, Sorry for reposting. I put it in another way : I want to test random effects in this random effect model : Rendement ~ Pollinisateur (random) + Lignee (random) + Pollinisateur:Lignee (random) Of course : summary(aov(Rendement ~ Pollinisateur * Lignee, data = mca2)) gives wrong tests for random effects. But : summary(aov1 <- aov(Rendement ~ Error(Pollinisateur * Lignee), data =

Hi, I am trying to get bootstrap confidence intervals on variance components and related statistics. To calculate the variance components I use the package lme4. > off.fun <- function(data, i){ d <- data[i,] lme1<- lmer(y ~ trt + (trt-1|group), d) VarCorr(lme1)@reSumry$group[2,1] #just as an example } > off.boot <- boot(data=data.sim, statistic=off.fun, R=100) If

Hi! I am quiet new with R and I have some problems to perform a posthoc test with an lme model. My model is the following: >lme1<-lme(eexp~meal+time, random=~1|id,na.action=na.omit) and then i try to get a post hoc test: >summary(glht(lme1,linfct=mcp(meal="Tukey))) but I get a warning message: Erreur dans as.vector(x, mode) : argument 'mode' incorrect Thank you for your

I'm trying to get Samba on a Mac OS X box running as a PDC with an LDAP backend. I've read through all of the major walkthroughs I can find, and we've actually already got it running very nicely as a file server; people are currently authenticating against a different PDC and then mapping drives from the Samba box in question. However, I'd like it to be the PDC eventually, but

Hello, I'm trying to use the groupedData function and R is giving me the message: Error: can not find function "groupedData" The code is coming from a textbook so I think it should be correct: pigs<-data.frame(cbind(pig.time,pig.id,pig.wt)) pig.growth<-groupedData(pig.wt~pig.time|pig.id,data=pigs) I have added the package "nlme" and to confirm that it was installed

Dear friends of lme, After so many year with lme, I feel ashamed that I cannot get this to work. Maybe it's a syntax problem, but possibly a lack of understanding. We have growth curves of new dental bone that can well be modeled by a linear growth curve, for two different treatments and several subjects as random parameter. By definition, newbone is zero at t=0, so I tried to force the

In my undertstanding of the problem, the model lme1 <- lme(resp~fact1*fact2, random=~1|subj) should be ok, providing that variances are homogenous both between & within subjects. The function will sort out which factors & interactions are to be compared within subjects, & which between subjects. The problem with df's arises (for lme() in nlme, but not in lme4), when

dear list, i am having trouble coloring the bars in a barplot. my data have two groups, which i would like to plot side by side. within each group i want to sort the observations in decreasing order, like a pareto chart. the bar colors would relfect the value of a third variable. below i have generated a reproducible example. the bar heights are a given pig's "gain",