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Hi Folks, I am dealing with data which have been presented as at each x_i, mean m_i of the y-values at x_i, sd s_i of the y-values at x_i number n_i of the y-values at x_i and I want to linearly regress y on x. There does not seem to be an option to 'lm' which can deal with such data directly, though the regression problem could be algebraically

In a classical meta analysis model y_i = X_i * beta_i + e_i, data {y_i} are assumed to be independent effect sizes. However, I'm encountering the following two scenarios: (1) Each source has multiple effect sizes, thus {y_i} are not fully independent with each other. (2) Each source has multiple effect sizes, each of the effect size from a source can be categorized as one of a factor levels

Hi Is there any way to fit a bivaraite longitudinal mixed model using R. I have a data set with col names resp1 (Y_ij1), resp2 (Y_ij2), timepts (t_ij), unit(i) j=1,2,..,m and i=1,2,..n. I want to fit the following two models Model 1 Y_ij1, Y_ij2 | U_i = u_i ~ N(alpha + u_i + beta1*t_ij, Sigma) U_i ~ iid N(0, sigu^2) Sigma = bivariate AR structure alpha and beta are vectors of order 2.

i want to ask 2 questions. 1) can R do Random-effects GLS regression which i can get from Stata? the following result is frome Stata.can I get the alike result from R? xtreg lwage educ black hisp exper expersq married union, re Random-effects GLS regression Number of obs = 4360 Group variable (i) : nr Number of groups = 545 R-sq:

Hi all, I have some difficulties with the lme function and so this is my problem. Supoose i have the following model y_(ijk)=beta_j + e_i + epsilon_(ijk) where beta_j are fixed effects, e_i is a random effect and epsilon_(ijk) is the error. If i want to estimate a such model, i execute >lme(y~vec.J , random~1 |vec .I ) where y is the vector of my data, vec.J is a factor object

I have a dataset which I want to model using a Poisson distribution, with a given parameter. I would like to know what is the proper way to do a ''goodness of fit'' test using R. I know the steps I''d take if I were to do it ''manually'': grouping the numbers into classes, calculating the expected frequencies using ''ppois'', then

Hallo everybody, I'm new in r and I"ll appreciate some help! I have a matrix of nrow=30 and ncoll=54,and I would like to generate 50 simulations with tha same size of the matrix!!!That is to say that I want to generate 50 matrices -for my 50 simulations - with the same dimensions! I took my 1st matrix according to the formula that I want to implement: D<-mean_m + U_i*mat_DELTA

Dear all, Given a LME model (following the notation of Pinheiro and Bates 2000) y_i = X_i*beta + Z_i*b_i + e_i, is it possible to extract the variance-covariance matrix for the estimated beta_i hat and b_i hat from the lme fitted object? The reason for needing this is because I want to have interval prediction on the predicted values (at level = 0:1). The "predict.lme" seems to

Dear R-users Coming from a proc mixed (SAS) background I am trying to get into the use of (n)lme. In this connection, I have some (presumably stupid) questions which I am sure someone out there can answer: 1) With proc mixed it is easy to get a hold on the estimated variance parameters as they can be put out into a SAS data set. How do I do the same with lme-objects? For example, I can see the

Hello! I would like to use lmer() to fit data, which are some estimates and their standard errors i.e kind of a "meta" analysis. I wonder if weights argument is the right one to use to include uncertainty (standard errors) of "data" into the model. I would like to use lmer(), since I would like to have a "freedom" in modeling, if this is at all possible. For

Dear all, I need to use R for one estimation, and i have readily available stata command, but i need also the R version of the same command. the estimation in stata is as following: 1. Compute mean values of relevant variables . sum inno lnE lnM Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max -------------+--------------------------------------------------------

hi! i want to change the "robustness weights" used by loess. these are described on page 316 of chambers and hastie's "statistical models in S" book as r_i = B(e_i,6m) where B is tukey's biweight function, e_i are the residulas, and m is the median average distance from 0 of the residuals. i want to change 6m to, say, 3m. is there a way to do this? i cant

Hi: I've been reading "Computational Methods for Multilevel Modeling" by Pinheiro and Bates, the idea of embedding the technique in my own c-level code. The basic idea is to rewrite the joint density in a form to mimic a single least squares problem conditional upon the variance parameters. The paper is fairly clear except that some important level of detail is missing. For

From: saint-filth@hotmail.com To: saint-filth@hotmail.com Subject: RE: Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 09:53:20 +0000 OK! sorry thats my fault, here the translations of the stata commands 1st step is to get the mean values of the variables, well that doesnt need explanation i guess, 2nd step is to estimate the model on panel data estimation method which is:

Dear All, Apologies if this is too simple for this list. Let us assume that you have an instrument measuring particle distributions. The output is a set of counts {n_i} corresponding to a set of average sizes {d_i}. The set of {d_i} ranges from d_i_min to d_i_max either linearly of logarithmically. There is no access to further detailed information about the distribution of the measured sizes, but

Dear R developers, I am a little disappointed that my bug report only made it to the wishlist, with the argument: Well, it does not say it has. Only relevant to prediction intervals. predict.lm does calculate prediction intervals for linear models from weighted regression, so they should be correct, right? As far as I can see they are bound to be wrong in almost all cases, if no weights

Hi, I am drawing several plots and want to have italics in a main title; this is easy with expression(). However, I want also to add a value to it, say n_i, that depends on an ith plot. For this I am using paste(). An example: n_i = 10, 20, 30; I want to draw a plot for each i with the title: "Relative efficiency for sample size n = n_i", where n should be in italics, and of course n_i

Hello, I'm very new to using R, but I was told it could do what I want. I'm not sure how best to enter the information but here goes... I'm trying to transfer the following integral into R to solve for ln(gamma_1), on the left, for multiple instances of gamma_i and variable N_i. gamma_i is, for example, (0, 0.03012048, 0.05000000, 0.19200000, 0.44000000, 0.62566845) N_i (N_1 or

Hi, I am running simulations that does multiple comparisons to control. For each simulation, I need to model 7 nls functions. I loop over 7 to do the nls using try if try fails, I break out of that loop, and go to next simulation. I get warnings on nls failures, but the simulation continues to run, except when the internal call (internal to nls) of the chol2inv fails.

Buenas tardes, Estoy interesado en generar observaciones de una distribucion binomial bivariada en la que hay _cierto_ grado de correlacion (denotemoslo rho). Podria por favor alguien indicarme como hacerlo en R? Este es el contexto. Supongamos que se tienen dos experimentos en los que la variable respuesta _sigue_ una distribucion binomial, i.e., X_i ~Binomial(n_i, p_i), i=1,2 y que, por ahora,