similar to: RE: zero-inflated count models (was polr problem solved)

Hello I am interested in Poisson or (ideally) Negative Binomial regression with an inflated number of 1 responses I have seen JK Lindsey's fmr function in the gnlm library, which fits zero inflated Poisson (ZIP) or zero inflated negative binomial regression, but the help file states that for ' Poisson or related distributions the mixture involves the zero category'. I had thought

First, my apologies for not giving all the details in my first post. Second, the problem was somewhat more complicated than simply using help.search('polr') or library(MASS). When I tried these, I got notices that polr could not be found anywhere, and that no package called MASS existed. When I went to the CRAN site, there was no package called MASS. I am not sure how I installed R

Hello again I am trying to fit an ordinal logistic model using the polr function from MASS. When I run model.loan.ordinal <- polr(loancat~age + sex + racgp + yrseduc + needlchg + gallery + sniffball + smokeball + sniffher + smokeher + nicocaine + inject + poly(year.of.int,3) + druginj + inj.years) I get an error Error in optim(start, fmin, gmin, method = "BFGS", hessian =

Hi list, I'd like to fit generalized gamma and weibull distributions to a number of data sets. I've been searching around and found references to R and Jim Lindsey's GNLM package, which has the gnlr and gnlr3 procedures that can do this. Now, I'm completely new to R, and I'm working my way through the introduction... Nevertheless, I'd like to ask if someone could post

I'd like to thank John Fox and Chuck Cleland for their help in resovling this issue. It turned out to be something simple, but perhaps others have had similar problems In my original data frame, I had 4 categories of race/ethnicity. One of the categories (other) was very small, and not similar to any of the other three categories, so I created a new data frame deleting those people.

Hello I am running R 1.8.1 on a Windows platform I am attempting to fit an ordinal logistic regression model, using the polr function, as described in Venables and Ripley. But when I try model4 <- polr(ypsxcat~committed + as.factor(sex) + as.factor(drugusey) + anycsw + as.factor(sex)*committed + as.factor(sex)*as.factor(drugusey)+as.factor(sex)*anycsw, data = duhray) I get a message

Dear friends. Do Polr in Mass change the sign of the coefficients ? Example (McCullagh 1980) options(contrasts=c("contr.treatment","contr.poly")) library(Mass) freq <- c(19,29,24,497,560,269) yy <- ordered(gl(3,1,6)) z4 <- polr(yy~x,weights=freq) > z4 Call: polr(formula = yy ~ x, weights = freq) Coefficients: x2 -0.6026492 Intercepts: 1|2

Pursing my earlier question, when I tried loading Lindsey's gnlm, I got a message Loading required package: rmutil Warning message: There is no package called 'rmutil' in: library(package, character.only = TRUE, logical = TRUE, warn.conflicts = warn.conflicts, According to the R documentation http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/doc/html/packages.html rmutil is in the standard

Hello R-helpers, I would like to fit a non-linear function to data (Discrete X axis, over-dispersed Poisson values on the Y axis). I found the functions gnlr in the gnlm package from Jim Lindsey: this can handle nonlinear regression equations for the parameters of Poisson and negative binomial distributions, among others. I also found the function nls2 in the software package

Hello, I am interested in fitting a generalized nonlinear regression (gnlr) model with negative binomial errors. I have found Jim Lindsay's package that will do gnlr, but I have having trouble with the particular model I am interested in fitting. It is a threshhold model, where below a certain value of one of the parameters being fitted, the model changes. Here is a sample: Cones:

Is there a simple say of extracting the shape parameter from gnlr? The return given is the actual function rather than the value. I have looked at all the values returned by names(gnlr). ie gmod<-gnlr(data,....) gmod$shape returns the function definition rather than the value found. Simple case I am using it is for censored normal data (rather simpler than survival4 it seems). The value

Hi (1)In polr(), is there any way to calculate a pseudo analogue to the R^2. Just for use as a purely descriptive statistic of the goodness of fit? (2) And: what are the assumptions which must be fulfilled, so that the results of polr() (t-values, etc.) are valid? How can I test these prerequisites most easily: I have a three-level (ordered factor) response and four metric variables. many

Hello R users, Doing My PhD I collected count data which I believe is zero inflated. I have run a statistical model with lmer and family=poisson and got summary(model)@sigma=1 so I believe there is no overdispertion. I would like to use the fmr function from the 'gnlm' library but I just cannot figure out from the examples in the help page and some forums out there how to convert the lmer

I'm running polr() and getting warning messages from glm.fit(). It seems reasonable to use glm.control() to turn on the trace and follow what glm.fit() does when called by polr(); or is it? glm.control(maxit=10, trace=TRUE) polr(act~., data=mm) The glm.control() sets the trace TRUE, but there's no change in the output from polr(). Many thanks in advance for any help/pointers.

Dear community, I am currently trying to fit an ordinal logistic regression model with the polr function. I often get the same error message : "attempt to find suitable starting values failed", for example with : require(MASS) data(iris) polr(Species~Sepal.Length+Sepal.Width+Petal.Length+Petal.Width,iris) (I know the response variable Species should be nominal but I do as levels

Hi, I'm getting an error message using polr(): Error in optim(start, fmin, gmin, method = "BFGS", hessian = Hess, ...) : initial value in 'vmmin' is not finite The outcome variable is ordinal and factored, and the independant variable is continuous. I've checked the source code for both polr() and optim() and can't find any variable called

Hi all, The problem is that when you try to use the function summary of a polr object in a function, it does not work. The problem is not related to the formula or the structure of data involved. It is probably related to the use of the function "vcov" in the code of summary for polr, and the iterative procedure to estimate the Hessian. Anyway, here there is an example extracted from

Hi, I obtained all the coefficients that I need from polr. However, I'm wondering how I can obtain the standard error of each estimated coefficient? I saved the Hessian and do something like summary(polrObj), I don't see any standard error like when doing regression using lm. Any help would be really appreciated. Thank you! - adschai

Dear all, To modelize the abundance of fish (4 classes) with a set of environmental variables, I used the polr and predict.polr functions. I would like to know how to bring the cumulated probabilities back to a discrete ordinal scale. For the moment I used the predict.polr function with the argument "class". Is there an other way? polrf <- polrf <- polr_mod(formula =

Dear Sir, I get an error message when I use polr() in MASS package. My data is "ord.dat". I made "y" a factor. y y1 y2 x lx 1 0 0 0 3.2e-02 -1.49485 2 0 0 0 3.2e-02 -1.49485 3 0 0 0 1.0e-01 -1.00000 4 0 0 0 1.0e-01 -1.00000 5 0 0 0 3.2e-01 -0.49485 6 0 0 0 3.2e-01 -0.49485 7 1 1 0 1.0e+00 0.00000 8 0 0 0 1.0e+00 0.00000 9 1 1 0