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Hi all, I am currently doing a consistency analysis using an lmer model and trying to use parametric bootstrapping for the confidence intervals. My model is like this: model<-lmer(y~A+B+(1|C/D)+(1|E),binomial) where E is the individual level for consistency analysis, A-D are other fixed and random effects that I have to control for. Following Nakagawa and Scheilzeth I can work out the

Hello, I am interested in using nlme to model repeated measurements, but I don't seem to get good CIs. With the code below I tried to generate data sets according to the model given by equations (1.4) and (1.5) on pages 7 and 8 of Pinheiro and Bates 2000 (having chosen values for beta, sigma.b and sigma similar to those estimated in the text). For each data set I used lme() to fit a model,

Folks In trying to use lmer for a hierarchical model, I encountered the following message: Error in UseMethod("VarCorr") : no applicable method for 'VarCorr' applied to an object of class "mer" foo.mer <- lmer(y ~ TP + (TP|M),data=joe.q) > head(joe.q[,1:5]) TP M AB Trt y 1 1 Jan A NN 19.20002 2 1 Jan A NN 19.06378 3 1 Jan A NN

Hello! One note/question hier about specification of control-parameters in the lme(...,control=list(...)) function call: i tried to specify tne number of iteration needed via lme(....,control=list(maxIter=..., niterEM=...,msVerbose=TRUE)) but every time i change the defualt values maxIter (e.g. maxIter=1, niterEM=0) on ones specified by me, the call returns all the iterations needed until

All, How does one extract the level-1 variance from a model fit via lmer()? In the code below the level-2 variance component may be obtained via subscripting, but what about the level-1 variance, viz., the 3.215072 term? (actually this term squared) Didn't see anything in the archives on this. Cheers, David > fm <- lmer( dv ~ time.num*drug + (1 | Patient.new), data=dat.new )

Dear All, I would like to ask you to help me with my memeory. I remember using some function that would list all the possible methods I could apply to an object. Say, if I had an object of class=lme, it would tell me that that I could do stuff like qqnorm(myobjct), or VarCorr(myobject). In general, a very complete list. I though this list of all possible methods would pop out by typing

I have a loop that I would like to use to extract the "stddev" for each itteration so I can average the "stddev" for all the runs. It would be helpful to know how to extract the "stddev" for each run from the VarCorr. Thanks MCruns<-1000 sighatlvec<-rep(NA,MCruns) sighatbvec<-rep(NA,MCruns) sighatevec<-rep(NA,MCruns) for(mc in 1:MCruns) {

I would appreciate some thoughts on using the bootstrap functions in the library "bootstrap" to estimate confidence intervals of ICC values calculated in lme. In lme, the ICC is calculated as tau/(tau+sigma-squared). So, for instance the ICC in the following example is 0.116: > tmod<-lme(CINISMO~1,random=~1|IDGRUP,data=TDAT) > VarCorr(tmod) IDGRUP = pdLogChol(1)

If you are indeed using lme and not lmer then the needed function is VarCorr(). However, 2 recommendations. First, this is a busy list and better emails subject headers get better attention. Second, I would recommend using lmer as it is much faster. However, VarCorr seems to be incompatible with lmer and I do not know of another function to work with lmer. Hence, a better email subject header

Dear list, I am having some problems with extracting Variance Components from a random-effects model: I am running a simple random-effects model using lme: model<-lme(y~1,random=~1|groupA/groupB) which returns the output for the StdDev of the Random effects, and model AIC etc as expected. Until yesterday I was using R v. 2.0, and had no problem in calling the variance components of the

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

Hi, I am currently preparing a new version of my package papeR. When I run R CMD check using the development version of R I get the following note: Package in Depends field not imported from: ?nlme?, ?lme4?, ?survival? These packages needs to imported from for the case when this namespace is loaded but not attached. I now have problems to fix this issue. It is easy to get rid of two of the

Here is a piece of code fitting a model to a (part) of a dataset, just for illustration. I can extract the random interaction and the residual variance in group meth==1 using VarCorr, but how do I get the other residual variance? Is there any way to get the other variances in numerical form directly - it seems a litte contraintuitive to use "as.numeric" when extracting estimates,

Hello, has someone written by chance a function to extract the variance-covariance matrix from a lmer-object? I've noticed the VarCorr function, but it gives unhandy output. Regards, Roel de Jong

Hi All. I need a bit of help extracting the residual error variance from the VarCorr structure from lmer. #Here's a 2-way random effects model lmer.1 <- lmer(rating ~ (1|person)+(1|rater), data = dat) #Get the structure vc.fit <- VarCorr(lmer.1) #results in..... $person 1 x 1 Matrix of class "dpoMatrix" (Intercept) (Intercept) 0.7755392 $rater 1 x 1 Matrix

Hi All, I would like to ask a question on fixed and random effecti in lme. I am fiddlying around Mick Crawley dataset "rats" : http://www.bio.ic.ac.uk/research/mjcraw/statcomp/data/ The advantage is that most work is already done in Crawley's book (page 361 onwards) so I can check what I am doing. I am tryg to reproduce the nested analysis on page 368:

Hi all - (this is posted to r-help and R-SIG-MAC) OSX 10.3.7, R 2.0.1, lme4/Matrix/latticeExtra latest, fresh install of R. MASS loaded (or not). I am getting an error message for the print() and summary() commands with all lme models I try and run in lme4 (GLMM's work fine). Using the example from the lme help, summary and print produce the following errors, despite the model being

Hi, I'm still having problems putting the variance components of my model in to a data frame, it is a continuation of this discussion, http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/ANOVA-problem-td4609062.html, but now focussed on the problem of extracting variance components. I have got my mixed effects model now /narrow$line<-as.factor(narrow$line) rg.lmer <- lapply(split(narrow,

Dear R users! I used lme to fit a mixed model with random intercept and spatial Gaussian correlation i.e. I fitted a model of the following form: Y = X*beta + error and error = U + W(t) + Z where U is the random intercept (normally distributed), W(t) the stationary Gaussian process and Z also a normally distributed (the residual) rv. Each of these three random variables have a variance which

Dear R-gurus, I have an interpretation problem regarding lme models. I am currently working on dog locomotion, particularly on some variation factors. I try to figure out which limb out of 2 generated more dispersed data. I record a value called Peak, around 20 times for each limb with a record. I repeat the records during a single day, and on several days. I tried to build two models, one