similar to: Penalized Splines as BLUPs using lmer?

Dear guRus: I am using lmer for a mixed model that includes a random intercept for a set of effects that have the same distribution, Normal(0, sig2b). This set of effects is of variable size, so I am using an as.formula statement to create the formula for lmer. For example, if the set of random effects has dimension 8, then the lmer call is: Zs<-

Queridos R-users: Tengo una duda que hace mucho tiempo que estoy intentando resolver, os explico a modo de ejemplo: Tengo estos efectos: Año(5 niveles),Localidad (10 niveles) y genotipo (3 niveles), año y localidad son aleatorios y genotipo es fijo (los he escogido yo). Me gustaría hacer obtener una tabla parecida a la Tabla Anova donde aparezca cada factor y sus interacciones y

Hi all, I am trying to run rejection sampling for the quantity z11 in the function below. Unfortunately I can't simplify the function further so that z11 only appears once. Whenever I run the algorithm, R looks as if it is running it (no error messages or anything), but then nothing happens for minutes...how long should it take to run something like this in R? I have tried in in both linux

HI, Dear R community, I have a large data set names dd.txt, the columns are: there are 2402 variables. a1, b1, ..z1, a11, b11, ...z11, a111, b111, ..z111.. IF I dont know the relative position of the columns, but I know I need the following variables: var<-c(a1, c1,a11,b11,f111) Can I use read.columns to read the data into R? I have tried the following codes, but it does not work

Paul: I may have found the issue (which is similar to your conclusion). I checked using egsingle in the mlmRev package as these individuals are strictly nested in this case: library(mlmRev) library(nlme) fm1 <- lme(math ~ year, random=~1|schoolid/childid, egsingle) fm2 <- lmer(math ~ year +(1|schoolid:childid) + (1|schoolid), egsingle) Checking the summary of both models, the output is

Dear all I have a model that looks like this: m1 <- lmer(Difference ~ 1+ (1|Examiner) + (1|Item), data=englisho.data) I know it is not possible to estimate random effects but one can obtain BLUPs of the conditional modes with re1 <- ranef(m1, postVar=T) And then dotplot(re1) for the examiner and item levels gives me a nice prediction interval. But I would like to have the prediction

Dear R users, An equivalence between linear mixed model formulation and penalized regression models (including the ridge regression and penalized regression splines) has proven to be very useful in many aspects. Examples include the use of the lme() function in the library(nlme) to fit smooth models including the estimation of a smoothing parameter using REML. My question concerns the use of

Dear R-users, Half a year ago we put out the R package "glmmADMB" for fitting overdispersed count data. http://otter-rsch.com/admbre/examples/glmmadmb/glmmADMB.html Several people who used this package have requested additional features. We now have a new version ready. The major new feature is that glmmADMB allows Bernoulli responses with logistic and probit links. In addition there

Hi all, To follow up on an older thread, it was suggested that the following would produce confidence intervals for the estimated BLUPs from a linear mixed effect model: OrthoFem<-Orthodont[Orthodont$Sex=="Female",] fm1OrthF. <- lmer(distance~age+(age|Subject), data=OrthoFem) fm1.s <- coef(fm1OrthF.)$Subject fm1.s.var <- fm1OrthF. at bVar$Subject fm1.s0.s <-

dfhfsdhf at ghghgr.com I ran a simple lme model: modelrandom=lmer(y~ (1|Test) + (1|strain), data=tempsub) Extracted the BLUPs: blups=ranef(modelrandom)[1] Even wrote myself a nice .csv file....: write.csv(ranef(modelrandom)[1],paste(x,"BLUPs.CSV")) This all works great. I end up with a .csv file with the names of my strains in the first column and the BLUP in the second

I am seeking for a method to calculate, given a fitted lme model and some data for a subject, the random effects predictors for this subject. I can only find predictors for the subjects used in creating the fit. Of course I could just add the subject and redo the fit. But I want to avoid just this refitting. Thanks for help wbk

Hello all, I have problem with setting up random effects. I have a model: y=x1+x2+x1*x2+z1+z1*x2 where x1, x2, x1*x2 are fixed effects and z1, z1*x2 are random effects (crossed effects) I use library(nlme) 'lme' function. My question is: how I should set up random effects? I did lme(y~x1+x2+x1:x2, data=DATA, random=~z1+z1:x2, na.action='na.omit') but it did not work.

I have data consisting of binary responses from a large number of subjects on seven similar items. I have been using lmer with (crossed) random effects for subject and item. These effects are almost always (in the case of subject, always) significant additions to the model, testing this with anova. Including them also increases the Somers' Dxy value substantially. Even without those

I want to compute confidence intervals for the random effect estimates for each subject. From checking on postings, this is what I cobbled together using Orthodont data.frame as an example. There was some discussion of how to properly access lmer slots and bVar, but I'm not sure I understood. Is the approach shown below correct? Rick B. # Orthodont is from nlme (can't have both nlme and

Dear All, After playing with lmer for couple of days, I have to say that I am amazed! I've been using quite some multilevel/mixed modeling packages, lme4 is a strong candidate for the overall winner, especially for multilevel generzlized linear models. Now go back to my two-level poisson model with cross-classified model. I've been testing various different model specificatios for the

Dear List, I've just tried to specify a GAM without an intercept -- I've got one of the (rare) cases where it is appropriate for E(y) -> 0 as X ->0. Naively running a GAM with the "-1" appended to the formula and the calling "predict.gam", I see that the model isn't behaving as expected. I don't understand why this would be. Google turns up this old

Hi everyone! I have a simple model that i would like to plot with 95% CIs. It is like follows: m1<-lmer(Richness~Grazing+I(Grazing^2)+(1|Plot),family=poisson) By using the effects package I get two plots, one for the linear term and one for the squared term. Q1: Can I get all in one? I.e. with one line for the whole model? Q2: Can I also visualize the random effects? I would be very happy for

I am fitting models to the responses to a questionnaire that has seven yes/no questions (Item). For each combination of Subject and Item, the variable Response is coded as 0 or 1. I want to include random effects for both Subject and Item. While I understand that the datasets are fairly small, and there are a lot of invariant subjects, I do not understand something that is happening

Dear lmer-ers, My thanks for all of you who are sharing your trials and tribulations publicly. I was hoping to elicit some feedback on my thoughts on denominator degrees of freedom for F ratios in mixed models. These thoughts and practices result from my reading of previous postings by Doug Bates and others. - I start by assuming that the appropriate denominator degrees lies between n

dear R-helper, I tried to find out a package in which i can have penalized maximum likelihood estimator applying on generalized extreme value distribution with beta function) but could not. would you please help me to know the name of the package. thanks for your help. S.Murshed --- r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch wrote: > Send R-help mailing list submissions to > r-help at