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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 While I'm not an R expert, I have used R on Windows XP. Now I've moved to Ubuntu (Intrepid), and I'm trying to configure R to work with the Gelman and Hill _Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models_. So far, it's not working. I start by following the instructions for installing arm and BRugs at

I was wondering what the criteria were for including books on the Books Related to R page <http://www.r-project.org/doc/bib/R-books.html>. (There is no maintainer listed on this page.) In particular, I was wondering why the following two books are not listed: * Andrew Gelman, Jennifer Hill, *Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models*. (CRAN package 'arm') *

A colleague was asking me if R does multi-level modelling as opposed to multiple regression. Since I have no knowledge of multi-level modelling (except 5 minutes googling ) I thought that I would as here. Does are offer any multi-level modeling packages? It looked like arm might be one but I was not sure. Thanks

Dear R People: Sorry for the off-topic. Could someone recommend a good reference for using the EM algorithm on mixed models, please? I've been looking and there are so many of them. Perhaps someone here can narrow things down a bit. Thanks in advance, Sincerely, Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown

Hi Sir I am very new user of R for the research project on multilevel logistic regression. There is confusion about bugs() function in R and BUGS software. Is there any relation between these two? Is there any comprehensive package for Multilevel Logistic modelling in R? Please guide in this regard. Thank You RAZA --------------------------------- Boardwalk for

Hi, does anyone out there have a recommendation for multilevel / random effects and longitudinal analysis? My dream book would be something that's both accessible to a non-statistician but rigorous (because I seem to be slowly turning into a statistician) and ideally would use R. Peter

Dear UseRs, I am having some problems using R with WinBUGS using the R2WinBUGS package. Specifically, when I try to run bugs() I get the following message. Error in FUN(X[[1L]], ...) : .C(..): 'type' must be "real" for this format > To give a little more context, my bugs() command (for a multilevel ordinal logit similar to Gelman and Hill, Data Analysis Using

Hi R bayesians, I need an advise how to resolve the two different estimates applying a traditional glm (TG) and a bayes glm (BG), and different results depending on the data formats of response data and the prior specs using bayesglm in R. I'm not familiar with bayes estimate and my colleague asked me to look into this because the EPA from France reported a quite different estimates for

Is there any package developed in R for multilevel (hierarchical) analysis of continuous and categorical dependent variables?

Dear R users I have a data set which has five variables. One depenedent variable y, and 4 Independent variables (education-level, householdincome, countrygdp and countrygdpsquare). The first two are data corresponding to the individual and the next two coorespond to the country to which the individual belongs to. My data set does not make this distinction between individual level and country

Greetings- I have some data on which I need to do something like a Hierarchical Linear Model (please bear with me, I'm only learning the technique so I don't know yet if my language is correct). Essentially I'm analyzing data at two levels simultaneously; data are about individuals an organizations of which they are members. Can someone point me toward an appropriate package in R?

This is part of my program. I am getting an error, that I cannot figure out, any help would very much appreciated, thanks. # subset variables arc <- arc[,c("SNAP", "code", "ncode", "var", "n_total")] Error in `[.data.frame`(arc, , c("SNAP", "code", "ncode", : undefined columns selected arc$N_eff <-

Dear R-Help friends, I am unable to get the latest version of R (2.4.1) to compile on my solaris 10 system - has anybody else experienced this problem and are you able to offer me any advice? I appreciate your time, many thanks, Jenny Barnes Here are my CURRENT specifications: platform sparc-sun-solaris2.10 arch sparc os solaris2.10

How can I get prediction intervals from a mixed-effects model? Consider the following example: library(nlme) fm3 <- lme(distance ~ age*Sex, data = Orthodont, random = ~ 1) df3.1 <- with(Orthodont, data.frame(age=seq(5, 20, 5), Subject=rep(Subject[1], 4), Sex=rep(Sex[1], 4))) predict(fm3, df3.1, interval='prediction') # M01 M01

Dear all, I've got a problem in fitting multilevel model in lme. I don't know to much about that but suspect that something is wrong with my model. I'm trying to fit: m1<-lme(X~Y,~1|group,data=data,na.action=na.exclude,method="ML") m2<-lme(X~Y+Z,~1|group,data=data,na.action=na.exclude,method="ML") where: X - dependent var. measured on a scale ranging from

I would like to fit a 2-level mixed model: yit=a+a[i]+a[it] +(b+b[i]+b[it])*xit+eps[it] However, the variance of the second level components should depend on the group, i.e. sigma for a[it] and b[it] should be [i] specific. I do not know whether this is conceptually right in the mixed model context... In case it stands, how should the formula look like? Also, the data are unbalanced with

Dear All, I'm trying to model heteroscedasticity using a multilevel model. To do so, I make use of the nlme package and the weigths-parameter. Let's say that I hypothesize that the exam score of students (normexam) is influenced by their score on a standardized LR test (standLRT). Students are of course nested in "schools". These variables are contained in the

Dear all, I am trying to learn Bayesian inference and Bayesian data analysis, I am new in the field. Would any experts on the list recommend any good sites or materials for beginners? My approach is to learn and understand the theory first, then program on my own using R, though I see there are already packages. appreciate any help, thanks in advance!

Greetings- I'm working through Pinheiro and Bates' _Mixed Effects Models in S and S-Plus_ using R (1.3.1 for linux). On page 13 (okay, so I haven't got that far :)) is: plot.design( ergoStool) which returns on my system: > plot.design(ergoStool) Error: couldn't find function "plot.design" any ideas? Thanks.

Dear R-group, Could somebody recommend a package that can deal with a multinomial response variable (choice of breeding tactic in mice, which has four unordered levels), multiply-imputed data (generated using the Amelia package) and two non-nested random effects: individual identity (133 individuals made up to four choices each) and year (for which there are six levels and sample size varies