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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

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

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 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

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

Hi all, This may seem like a dumb question, but I work for an entity that is soon converting to XP across the board, and I will lose the ability to install software on my own. The entity has a policy of only using software that has been purchased and "properly licensed" (whatever that means). This means I will soon lose the ability to use R at work - something I can't do without

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

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

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-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

You reall have only one parameter in your model, c = a/b. You can't identify both a and b from your model, therefore, you should fit the linear model: lm(z ~ c* sin(x)/x) Ravi. ----- Original Message ----- From: cstrato <cstrato at aon.at> Date: Monday, February 2, 2004 2:28 pm Subject: [R] Robust nonlinear regression - sin(x)/x? > Dear all > > Since I did not receive any

Here is a summary of responses to my original email (see my query at the bottom). Thank you to Achim Zeileis , Anders Nielsen, Pierre Kleiber and Dave Fournier who all helped out with advice. I hope that their responses will help some of you too. ***************************************** Check out glm.nb() from package MASS fits negative binomial GLMs.

Hi, I have been asked to produce a binary of some software for somone running R on Mac OS X. I don't have a Mac and don't know anything about them. The sloution would seem to be to obtain/build a crsoo compiler on windows or probably easier on Linux i686. I would appreciate any advice on how how to go about this. I understand there are a number of different versions of Mac OS X. Are

Hi All, Following Mike Praeger's posting on this list, I'm happy to pass on that AD Model Builder is now freely available from the ADMB Foundation. http://admb-foundation.org/ Two areas where AD Model builder would be especially useful to R users are multi-parmater smooth optimization as in larg scale maximum likelihood estimation and the analysis of general nonlinear random

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

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 |

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