similar to: glmmADMB: Generalized Linear Mixed Models using AD Model Builder

Dear List, Some of you have been following the discussion of the GPL and its inclusion in the glmmADMB package we created for R users. I would like to provide a bit of background and include an email we received from Prof. Ripley so that everyone can be aware of how some might use the GPL to try to force access to proprietary software. I think this is interesting because many have voiced the

Dear Dr Skaug and R users, just discovered glmm.admb in R, and it seems a very useful tool. However, I ran into a problem when I compare two models: m1<-glmm.admb(survival~light*species*damage, random=~1, group="table", data=bm, family="binomial", link="logit") m1.1<-glmm.admb(survival~(light+species+damage)^2, random=~1, group="table", data=bm,

library(glmmADMB) #Example for glmm.admb data(epil2) glmm.admb(y~Base*trt+Age +Visit,random=~Visit,group="subject",data=epil2,family="nbinom") Gives: Error in glmm.admb(y ~ Base * trt + Age + Visit, random = ~Visit, group = "subject", : The function maximizer failed ****************** R version 2.4.1 RC (2006-12-14 r40181) powerpc-apple-darwin8.8.0 locale: C

Dear R-users, Earlier this year I posted a message to this list regarding negative binomial mixed models in R. It was suggested that the program I had written should be turned into an R-package. This has now been done, in collaboration with David Fournier and Anders Nielsen. The R-package glmmADMB provides the following GLMM framework: - Negative binomial or Poisson responses. - Zero-inflation

Dear R-users, A recent post (Feb 16) to R-help inquired about fitting a glmm with a negative binomial distribution. Professor Ripley responded that this was a difficult problem with the simpler Poisson model already being a difficult case: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2005-February/064708.html Since we are developing software for fitting general nonlinear random effects models we

Hi I am running an lmer which works fine with family=poisson mixed.model<-lmer(nobees~spray+dist+flwabund+flwdiv+round+(1|field),family="poisson",method="ML",na.action=na.omit) But it is overdispersed. I tried using family=quasipoisson but get no P values. This didnt worry me too much as i think my data is closer to negative binomial but i cant find any examples of

Hi here, i recently notice the software built by otter company know as AD-MB tools . i explore a little bit this tools under the R Package for mixed logistics model. it is a very interesting tool. but i get several questions. first question: i tried the R code below, and have the error , i can run the code for switching the setting to impSamp=0 , it means i can only run the code under

Dear R-list, I thought that I would let some of you know of a free R package, glmm.ADMB, that can handle mixed models for overdispersed and zero-inflated count data (negativebinomial and poisson). It was built using AD Model Builder software (Otter Research) for random effects modeling and is available (for free and runs in R) at: http://otter-rsch.com/admbre/examples/glmmadmb/glmmADMB.html I

The freely available R package glmmADMB can do Adaptive Gaussian Quadrature for this type of model, since it is built using AD Model Builder's random effects module which incorporates this feature. There is now a beta version of the software for people using R on the Mac intel platform. http://otter-rsch.com/admbre/examples/glmmadmb/glmmADMB.html Cheers, Dave -- David A. Fournier

There has recently been some discussion on the list about AD Model builder and the suitability of R for constructing the types of models used in fisheries management. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-January/086841.html https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-January/086858.html I think that many R users understimate the numerical challenges that some of the typical

Do Users of Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models Know Whether Their Software Really Works? Lesaffre et. al. (Appl. Statist. (2001) 50, Part3, pp 325-335) analyzed some simple clinical trials data using a logistic random effects model. Several packages and methods MIXOR, SAS NLMIXED were employed. They reported obtaining very different parameter estimates and P

I am using the 'glmmPQL function in the 'MASS' library to fit a mixed effects logistic regression model to simulated data. I am conducting a series of simulations, and with certain simulated datasets, estimation of the random effects logistic regression model unexpectedly terminates. I receive the following error message from R: Error in lme.formula(fixed=zz + arm.long,random=~1 |

Hi there, I am new to the package glmmadmb, but need it to perform a zero-inflated gzlmm with a binomial error structure. I can't seem to get it to work without getting some strange error messages. I am trying to find out what is affecting the number of seabird calls on an array of recorders placed at 4 sites on 6 islands. I have nightly variables (weather and moonlight), site variables

Greetings glmmADMB function users, I am trying to run a series of models using the glmmADMB function with several different distribution families (e.g., poisson, negbinom). I am using a Optiplex 790 PC with Windows 7, 16.0 GB of RAM and a 64-bit operating system. I am running R version 2.15.0 and started out using the most recent version of glmmADMB (I believe version 7.2.15). My data is zero

Dear all, I am having some problems trying to run a GLMM model with zero-inflation using the alpha version of glmmADMB (0.6.4) using R (2.13.1) in Windows and I would greatly appreciate some help. My count response variable (number of birds: count) fits a negative binomial distribution and the explanatory variables are both continuous and categorical (species= 17). The three random effects are

R glmmADMB question I am trying to use glmm.admb (the latest alpha version from the R forge website 0.6.4) to model my count data that is overdispersed using a negative binomial family but keep getting the following error message: Error in glmm.admb(data$total_bites_rounded ~ age_class_back, random = ~food.dif.id, : Argument "group" must be a character string specifying the

Conservative robust estimation methods do not appear to be currently available in the standard mixed model methods for R, where by conservative robust estimation I mean methods which work almost as well as the methods based on assumptions of normality when the assumption of normality *IS* satisfied. We are considering adding such a conservative robust estimation option for the random effects to

Does someone have code, or point to a source to get it, to model repeated measures zero-inflated poisson data. The data come from a replicated field trial comparing two treatments - a control and a test treatment. Thanks in advance ------------------------------------ Subhash Chandra, DSc Senior Biometrician Primary Industries Research Victoria Department of Primary Industries 1 Ferguson Road

Hello everybody, I am using glmmADMB and when I run some models, I recieve the following message: Erro em glmmadmb(eumencells ~ 1 + (1 | owners), data = pred3, family = "nbinom", : The function maximizer failed (couldn't find STD file) Furthermore: Lost warning messages: Command execution 'C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c

Dear All, I'm analysing a negative binomial dataset from a population-based study. Many covariates were determined on household level, so all members of a household have the same value for those covariates. In STATA, there seems to be an option for 'clustered analysis' for neg-bin regression. Does an equivalent exist for R(MASS)'s glm.nb or a comparable function? Many thanks for