similar to: Extracting Variance components

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 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 <-

Hello, I am running this script from Pinheiro & Bates book in R Version 2.1.1 (WinXP). But, I can't plot Figure 2.3. What's wrong? TIA. Rod. --------------------------------------------------------- >library(nlme) > names( Orthodont ) [1] "distance" "age" "Subject" "Sex" > levels( Orthodont$Sex ) [1] "Male"

Dear r-helpers, After successfully running require(nlme) vfr.lmL <- lmList( estimate ~ (slant + respType + visField + hand)^2 | subject, vfr ) pairs(vfr.lmL, id = 0.01, adj = -0.5) # Pinheiro & Bates (p. 141) produces the following error: Error in sprintf(gettext(fmt, domain = domain), ...) : object "form" not found Any guesses as to what I may have done wrong?

Hello, I am looking for a way to obtain standard errors for emprirical Bayes estimates of a model fitted with lmer (like the ones plotted on page 14 of the document available at http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/content_storage_01/0000000b/80/2b/b3/94.pdf). Harold Doran mentioned (http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/help/05/08/10638.html) that the posterior modes' variances

Dear all, I am starting to use the lme package (and plan to teach a course based on it next semester...). To understand what lme is doing precisely, I used balanced datasets described in Pinheiro and Bates and tried to compare the lme outputs to that of aov. Here is what I obtained: > data(Machines) > summary(aov(score~Machine+Error(Worker/Machine),data=Machines)) Error: Worker

Hi R users: Is there a function to obtain the correlation within groups from this very simple lme model? > modeloMx1 Linear mixed-effects model fit by REML Data: barrag Log-restricted-likelihood: -70.92739 Fixed: fza_tension ~ 1 (Intercept) 90.86667 Random effects: Formula: ~1 | molde (Intercept) Residual StdDev: 2.610052 2.412176 Number of Observations: 30 Number

Dear R-help group, I would like to model directly following random effect model: Y_ik = M_ik + E_ik where M_ik ~ N(Mew_k,tau_k^2) E_ik ~ N(0,s_ik^2) i = number of study k = number of treatment --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have practiced using the command from 'Mixed -Effects models in S and S-plus'

Please pardon an extremely naive question. I see related earlier posts, but no responses which answer my particular question. In general, I'm very confused about how to do variance decomposition with random and mixed effects. Pointers to good tutorials or texts would be greatly appreciated. To give a specific example, page 193 of V&R, 3d Edition, illustrates using raov assuming pure

I''m a physicist working on fusion energy and dabble in statistics only occasionally, so please excuse gaps in my statistical knowledge. I''d appreciate any help that a real statistics expert could provide. Most people in my field do only very simple statistics, and I am trying to extend some work on multivariate linear regression to account for significant between-group

I would like to fit the following model: logit(p_{ij}) = \mu + a_i + b_j where a_i ~ N(0, \sigma_a^2) , b_j ~ N(0, \sigma_b^2) and \sigma_a = \sigma_b. Is it possible to fit a model with such a constraint on the variance components in glmer? -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/glmer-question-tp4351829p4351829.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at

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

HI, I would like to extract the variance components estimation in lme function like a.fit<-lme(distance~age, data=aaa, random=~day/subject) There should be three variances \sigma_day, \sigma_{day %in% subject } and \sigma_e. I can extract the \sigma_e using something like a.fit$var. However, I cannot manage to extract the first two variance components. I can only see the results in

Hi, as you can see in the topic, I am trying to fit a normal mixture distribution with the approach suggested by Hamilton (1991). Since I couldn't find any existing packages including the quasi-bayesian mle, I have to write my own function. Unfortunately, I have absolutely no experience in doing this. If you're not familiar with the QB-MLE, I attached the formula as pdf. The idea

I am introducing the scan() function to my class. Consider the following file (Scanexamp.Rnw ) \documentclass[12pt]{article} \begin{document} <<>>= height = scan() 64 62 66 65 62 69 72 72 70 part = scan(what = character(0)) "Soprano" "Soprano" "Soprano" "Alto" "Alto" "Tenor" "Tenor" "Bass"

I found myself wanting to average a vector [vec] within each level of a factor [Fac], returning a vector of the same length as vec. After a while I realised that lm1 <- lm(vec ~ Fac) fitted(lm1) did what I want. But there must be another way to do this, and it would be good to be able to apply other functions than mean() in this way. Cheers, Murray -- Dr Murray Jorgensen

I am exploring the result of clustering a large multivariate data set into a number of groups, represented, say, by a factor G. I wrote a function to see how categorical variables vary between groups: > ddisp <- function(dvar) { + csqt <- chisq.test(G,dvar) + print(csqt$statistic) + print(csqt$observed) + print(round(csqt$expected)) + round(csqt$residuals) + } > > x

I'm going to try my hand at converting some Fortran programs to R. Does anyone know of any good articles giving hints at such tasks? I will post a selective summary of my gleanings. Cheers, Murray -- Dr Murray Jorgensen http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Email: maj at waikato.ac.nz

Having just update to R 2.6.2 on my old Windows laptop I notice that the number of packages is growing exponentially and my usual approach of get-em-all may not be viable much longer. Has any thought been given to dividing "contributed" binaries into a recommended set, perhaps a couple of hundred, and the remained. That way one could install the recommended ones routinely and add in

Bother! This cold has made me accident-prone. I meant to hit Reply-all. Clarification below. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [R] Parameterization puzzle Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:10:03 +1200 From: Murray Jorgensen <maj at waikato.ac.nz> To: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> References: <44C063E5.3020703 at waikato.ac.nz>