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Dear R-Users I have a problem accessing some values in the output from the summary of an lme fit. I fit the model below: ggg <- lme (ST~ -1 + as.factor(endp):Z.sas + as.factor(endp), data=dat4a, random=~-1 + as.factor(endp) + as.factor(endp):Z.sas|as.factor(trials), correlation = corSymm(form=~1|as.factor(trials)/as.factor(id)), weights=varIdent(form=~1|endp)) hh

I have been using gnls with the weights argument (and varConstPower) to specify a variance structure for curve fits. In attempting to extract the parameters for the variance model I am seeing results I don't understand. When I simply display the model (or use "summary" on the model), I get what seem like reasonable values for both "power" and "const". When I

Dear R-users I am relatively new to R, i hope my many novice questions are welcome. I have problems accessing some objects (specifically the random effects, correlation structure and variance function) from an object of class gls and lme. I used the following models: yah <- gls (outcome~ -1 + as.factor(Trial):as.factor(endpoint)+

Dear R-Users, I have a question concerning extraction of parameter estimates of variance function from lme fit. To fit my simulated data, we use varConstPower ( constant plus power variance function). fm<-lme(UPDRS~time,data=data.simula,random=~time,method="ML",weights=varConstPower(fixed=list(power=1))) I extract the results of this function by using the following codes:

Dear R Users I have difficulties accessing the variance components for an lme fit when the variance covariance matrix of the random effects is not positive definite. Can anyone inform me on how to get by this ? Thanks in advance Pryseley --------------------------------- [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, lme() users, Can some one tell me how to do this. I model Orthodont with the same G for random variables, but different R{i}'s for boys and girls, so that I can get sigma1_square_hat for boys and sigma2_square_hat for girls. The model is Y{i}=X{i}beta + Z{i}b + e{i} b ~ iid N(0,G) and e{i} ~ iid N(0,R{i}) i=1,2 orth.lme <- lme(distance ~ Sex * age, data=Orthodont, random=~age|Subject,

Hi all, I understand that gls() uses generalized least squares, but I thought that maybe optimum weights from gls might be used as weights in lm (as shown below), but apparently this is not the case. See: library(nlme) f1 <- gls(Petal.Width ~ Species / Petal.Length, data = iris, weights = varIdent(form = ~ 1 | Species)) aa <- attributes(summary(f1)$modelStruct$varStruct)$weights f2 <-

Hi! I try to explain the efffect of (1) forest where i took samples's soils (* Lugar*: categorical variable with three levels), (2) nitrogen addition treatments (*Tra*: categorical variable with two levels) on total carbon concentration's soil samples (*C: *continue* *variable) during four months of sampling (*Time:* categorical and ordered variable with four levels). I fitted the

Greetings, 1) Is there a nice way of extracting the variance estimates from an lme fit? They don't seem to be part of the lme object. 2) In a series of simulations, I am finding that with ML fitting one of my random effect variances is sometimes being estimated as essentially zero with massive CI instead of the finite value it should have, whilst using REML I get the expected value. I guess

Hello R-users I am new to R and trying to write some functions. I have problems writing functions that takes a data set as an arguement and uses variables in the data. I illustrate my problem with a small example below: sample data #------------------ visual24<-rnorm(30,3,5) visual52<-rt(30,7) dats<- data.frame(cbind(visual24,visual52)) remove(visual24, visual52)

R 1.6.2 for Windows, Win2k: I have fitted a weighted least squares model using the code "wls.out <- gls(y ~ x1 + x2 + x3 + x4 + x5 + x6 - 1, data = foo.frame, weights = varConstPower(form = ~ fitted(.), fixed = list(power = 0.5), const = 1))" The data has 62 rows and the response is zero when the covariates are zero. The purpose of the model was to account for the the fact that

The print method for lme *prints out* the fitted correlation matrix for the random effects. Is there any way to get these values as an object in R? I have examined the components of the lme object (called "junk" in the example below) and the components of summary(junk) without finding these numbers. (How I did this: I dumped the entire lme object to a text file and then used egrep to

Works perfectly. Thank you. -Hugh Rand -----Original Message----- From: Spencer Graves [mailto:spencer.graves at pdf.com] Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 6:41 PM To: Rand, Hugh Cc: 'r-help at lists.R-project.org' Subject: Re: [R] trouble with extraction/interpretation of variance structure para meters from a model built using gnls and varConstPower How about this: >

Dear R-Users, Is it possible to get the covariance matrix from an lme model that did not converge ? I am doing a simulation which entails fitting linear mixed models, using a "for loop". Within each loop, i generate a new data set and analyze it using a mixed model. The loop stops When the "lme function" does not converge for a simulated dataset. I want to

Dear all, Here is the question: For example, using the "petrol" data offered with R. pet3.lme<-lme(Y~SG+VP+V10+EP,random=~1|No,data=petrol) pet3.lme$sigma gives the residual StdDev. But I can't figure out how to extract the "(intercept) StdDev", although it is in the print out if I do "summary(pet3.lme)". In

Dear R-Users I used the nlme library to fit a linear mixed model (lme). The random effect standard errors and correlation reported are based on a Log-Cholesky parametrization. Can anyone tell me how to get the Covariance matrix of the random effects, given the above mentioned parameters based on the Log-Cholesky parametrization?? Thanks in advance Pryseley

Hello R-users Is it possible to fit a three level linear mixed effect model in R? If anyone has an idea or sample code, i will appreciate it very much if i can receive it. I am reading the book by Pinheiro and Bates but have not come across that yet! Kind regards Pryseley --------------------------------- [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R-users Can anyone inform me of a library or more specifically functions that can maximise (or calculate) a Pairwsie likelihood from a data. Better still, i would like to know if there is a function (library) that fits regression models based on pairwise likelihoods. Thanks Pryseley --------------------------------- [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R users, Can someone inform me about a library/function in R that fits a Plackett-Dale model ? Thanks in advance Pryseley --------------------------------- [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R users, I fitted a repeated measure model without random effects by using lme. I will use the estimates from that model as an initial estimates to do multiple imputation for missing values of the response variable in the model. I am trying to extract the within group correlation matrix or covariance matrix. here is my code: f = lme(y ~x0+x1+trt+tim+x1:tim +tim:trt,random=~-1|subj,