similar to: GLM/GAM and unobserved heterogeneity

Dear List, I'm just teaching myself semi-parametric techniques. Apologies in advance for the long post. I've got observational data and a longitudinal, semi-parametric model that I want to fit in GAM (or potentially something equivalent), and I'm not sure how to do it. I'm posting this to ask whether it is possible to do what I want to do using "canned" commands

Dear list, this is not a particular R question but perhaps someone can help. I am running a maximum likelihood estimation (competing risk duration model with unobserved heterogeneity) on 30 different datasets. The problem is that on 2 datasets the model does not converge. I am interested if there are any methods, based on the gradients or (an approximation of) the hessian which helps to

Hi all, I have major heterogeneity in variances across labs (100-fold). There is no apparent variance heterogeneity across y-hat. By using lme4 in the following way, am I accounting for the variance differences in labs?: lmer(y ~ fixed1 + covariates + (fixed1|labs)) I'm not sure that it is - I think it is only allowing the means (slopes [conditional means] & intercepts) to differ

My data have heterogeneity of variance (in a categorical variable), do I need to specify a variance structure accounting for this in my model or do GLMMs by their nature account for such heterogeneity (as a result of using deviances rather than variances)? And if I do need to do this, how do I do it (e.g. using something like the VarIdent function in nlme) and in what package? This is my first

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE A similar question has been posted in the past but never answered. My question is this: for probit analysis, how do you program a 95% confidence interval for the LD50 (or LC50, ec50, etc.), including a heterogeneity factor as written about in "Probit Analysis" by Finney(1971)? The heterogeneity factor comes into play through the chi-squared

Dear list members, I am looking for an alternative function for a two-way ANOVA in the case of variance heterogeneity. For one-way ANOVA, I found oneway.test(), but I didn't find anything alike for two-way ANOVA. Does anyone have a suggestion? Thank you! Maike Luhmann Freie Universit?t Berlin

Hello, I am having some difficulty converting my gam code to a correct gamm code, and I'm really hoping someone will be able to help me. I was previously using this script for my overdispersed gam data: M30 <-gam(efuscus~s(mic, k=7) +temp +s(date)+s(For3k, k=7) + pressure+ humidity, family=negbin(c(1,10)), data=efuscus) My gam.check gave me the attached result. In order to

Hi All I found survfit function was very slow for a large dataset and I am looking for an alternative way to quickly get the predicted survival probabilities. My historical data set is a pool of loans with monthly observed default status for 24 months. I would like to fit the proportional hazard model with time varying covariate such as unemployment rates and time constant variables at loan

Hi! My question(s) in the end might be silly but I am no expert on this, so here it goes: Noy-Meir (1973), Pielou (1984) and a few others have pointed to non-centered PCA being in some cases useful. They clearly explain that "it is the case" when multi-dimensional data display distinct clusters (which have zero, or near-zero, projections in some subset of the axes) and the task is

Hi, I am trying to add multiple variance structures such as the first example below: vf1 <- varComb(varIdent(form = ~1|Sex), varPower()) However my code below will not work can anybody please advise me? VFcomb<-varComb(varExp(form=~depcptwithextybf),varFixed(form=~FebNAO)) also if you have two variables with the same weights function would you write that as:

Hi there, My question is about the 'theta' parameter in specification of a NB GAMM. I have fit a GAM with an optimum structure of: SB.gam4<-gam(count~offset(vol_offset)+ s(Depth_m, by=StnF, bs="cs")+StageF*RegionF, family=negbin(1, link=log), data=Zoop_2011[Zoop_2011$SpeciesF=='SB',]) However, this GAM shows heterogeneity in the

my models borrower ----- has_many :loans loan ----- belongs_to :borrower my loans _controller def new @borrower = Borrower.find(params[:borrower_id]) logger.debug '' @borrower.id'' logger.debug @borrower.id @loan = Loan.new respond_to do |format| format.html # new.html.erb format.xml { render :xml => @loan } end

Dear R-ians, I'm looking for a computational simplified formula to calculate a measure for heterogeneity (let's say H ): H = sqrt [ (Si (Sj (Xi - Xj)?? ) ) /n ] where: sqrt = square root Si = summation over i (= 0 to n) Sj = summation over j (= 0 to n) Xi = element of X with index i Xj = element of X with index j I can simplify the formula to: H = sqrt [ ( 2 * n * Si (Xi) - 2 Si (Sj

Hello, this is my first post. I have a large CSV file where I need to fill in the 1st and 2nd column with a Loan # and Account name that would be found in a line of text : like this: ,,Loan #:,ML-113-07,Account Name:, Quilting Boutique,,,,,,,,,,, I would like to place the Loan #: ML-113-07 in the first column and the account name quilting boutique in the second column. If possible I would also

I have a loans table and a payments table. Each loan has_many payments. So far no problem. Now, the payments table has a payment_number field, and each payment has a payment_number unique within that loan. For example, Loan A can have payment_numbers 0, 1, and 2 and Loan B can have payment_numbers 0, 1, 2, and 3 (but only one of each payment_number). I can enforce this with a unique index in

Dear All My data consists in 96 groups, each one with 10 observations. Levene's test suggests that the variances are not equal, and therefore I have tried to apply the classical transformations to have homocedasticity in order to be able to use ANOVA. Unfortunately, no transformation that I have used transforms my data into data with homocedasticity. The histogram of variances is at

I have numerous replicated goodness-of-fit experiments (observed compared to expected counts in categories) and these replicates are nested within a factor. The expected counts in each cell are external (from a scientific model being tested). The calculations I need within each level of the nesting factor are a heterogeneity G test, with the total G and the pooled G across replicates. Then I

Hello. I want to estimate the predicted values and standard errors of Y=f(t) and its first derivative at each unique value of t using the smooth.spline function. However, the data (plant growth as a function of time) show substantial heterogeneity of variance since the variance of plant mass increases over time. What is the consequence of such heterogeneity of variance in terms of bias in the

Hi Can anyone please suggest me a package where I can estimate a non-linear regression model? One of the independent variables is latent or unobserved. I have an indicator variable for this unobserved variable; however the relationship is known to be non-linear also. In terms of equations my problem is y=f(latent, fixed) q=g(latent) where q is the indicator variable For me both f and g are

Agile Web Development with Rails doesn''t seem to have NULL in the index [or my eyes have failed me again], and web searching turns up lots of SQL statements containing NOT NULL. I have a table of loans, and I want to record when something was loaned and returned. The loan date can''t be null, or there''d be no entry in the table. The return date must be something