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I'm trying to fit a zero-inflated poisson model using zeroinfl() from the pscl library. It works fine for most models I try, but when I include either of 2 covariates, I get an error. When I include "PopulationDensity", I get this error: Error in solve.default (as.matrix(fit$hessian)) : system is computationally singular: reciprocal condition number = 1.91306e-34 When I

Dear R users, I have been using the zicounts package (verson 1.1.4) in R (version 2.4.1). I have been fitting zero inflated Poisson regressions to model the number of trips made by a household. Whilst I can get the best fit parameter set from zicounts, I can't get the package to return the fitted values for the model. I have attempted to calculate the fitted values from the optimal

I have data on number of vines per tree for ~550 trees. Over half of the trees did not have any vines and the data is fairly skewed (median = 0, mean = 1.158, 3rd qu. = 1.000). I am attempting to investigate whether plot location (four sites), species (I'm using only the four most common species), or tree dbh has a significant influence on the number of vines per tree. When I

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

Hi, I have a dataset with the following properties: Y_i ~ N(mu_i, theta * (mu_i)^2) ln(mu_i) = B'Xi theta and beta's are the parameters here. I want to come up with a model to fit the data with the above property and test that model on the built in R dataset quine. Does nls() make sense in this case? Or is there any existing R package which can fit this model? -Shelly -- View

Dear R Help, I am trying to fit a nonlinear model for a mean function $\mu(Data_i, \beta)$ for a fixed covariance matrix where $\beta$ and $\mu$ are low- dimensional. More specifically, for fixed variance-covariance matrices $\Sigma_{z=0}$ and $\Sigma_{z=1}$ (according to a binary covariate $Z $), I am trying to minimize: $\sum_{i=1^n} (Y_i-\mu_(Data_i,\beta))' \Sigma_{z=z_i}^{-1} (Y_i-

Dear list, This is a question about overdispersion and the ML estimates of the parameters returned by the glm.poisson.disp (L. Scrucca) and glm.nb (Venables and Ripley) functions. Both appear to assume a negative binomial distribution for the response variable. Paul and Banerjee (1998) developed C(alpha) tests for "interaction and main effects, in an unbalanced two-way layout of counts

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

Dear All, Suppose Z_i, i=1,...,m are marginally identically distributed as a two normal mixture p0*N(0,1) + (1-p0) *N( miu_i, 1) where miu_i are identically distributed according to a mixture and I have generated Z_i one by one . Now suppose these m random variables are jointly m-dimensional normal with correlation matrix M= (m_ij). How to proceed next or how to start correctly ? Question:

I have data (each Y_i is a vector) in the form of Y_i = X_i \beta_i + Z_i b_i + epsilon_i Were it not for the measurement error (the epsilon_i) it's a very simple model --- nice and balanced, compound symmetry, and I'd just use lme(y ~ x1 + x2, random=~1|subj, ...) but the measurement error is throwing me off. Because the Y_i are actually derived from other data, I am able

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

Dear all, I tried running the following syntax but it keeps running for about 4 hours and then i got the following errors: Error in if (is.na(f0$objective)) { : argument is of length zero In addition: Warning message: In is.na(f0$objective) : is.na() applied to non-(list or vector) of type 'NULL' Here is the syntax itself: library('nloptr') library('pracma') #

Hi, I have two questions. First, I'd like to compare a ZINB model to a negativ binomial model with the Vuong test, but I can't find how to performe it from the zicount package. Does a programm exist to do it ? Second, I'd like to know in which cases we have to use a double hurdle model instead of a zero inflated model. Many thanks, St??phanie Payet REES France R??seau

Dear people, I'm trying to do some analysis of a data using the models by Royle & Donazio in their fantastic book, particular the following function: http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/pubanalysis/roylebook/panel4pt1.fn that applied to my data and in the console is as follows: > `desman.y` <- structure(c(3L,4L,3L,2L,1L), .Names = c("1", "2", "3",

Dear all, I have a code that generates data vectors within R. For example assume: z <- rlnorm(1000, meanlog = 0, sdlog = 1) Every time a vector has been generated I would like to export it into a csv file. So my idea is something as follows: for (i in 1:100) { z <- rlnorm(1000, meanlog = 0, sdlog = 1) write.csv(z, "c:/z_i.csv") Where "z_i.csv" is a filename that is

Suppose one wanted to consider random variables X_1,...X_n and from each subtract off the piece which is correlated with the previous variables in the list. i.e. make new variables Z_i so that Z_1=X_1 and Z_i=X_i-cov(X_i,Z_1)Z_1/var(Z_1)-...- cov(X_i,Z__{i-1})Z__{i-1}/var(Z_{i-1}) I have code to do this but I keep getting a "non-conformable array" error in the line with the covariance.

Hello Folks, Very new to R so bear with me, running 5.2 on XP. Trying to do a zero-inflated negative binomial regression on placental scar data as dependent. Lactation, location, number of tick larvae present and mass of mouse are independents. Dataframe and attributes below: Location Lac Scars Lar Mass Lacfac 1 Tullychurry 0 0 15 13.87 0 2 Somerset 0 0 0

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

Dear helpers in this forum, This is a clarified version of my previous questions in this forum. I really need your generous help on this issue. > Suppose I have the following data set: > > id x y > 023 1 2 > 023 2 5 > 023 4 6 > 023 5 7 > 412 2 5 > 412 3 4 > 412 4 6 > 412 7 9 > 220 5 7 > 220 4 8 > 220 9 8 > ...... > Now I want to compute the

I am sorry if this question is vague or uninformed. I am just learning R and struggling. I am using the book Hierarchical Modeling and Inference in Ecology and they provide examples of R code. I have the following code from the book but when I run it I don't get any output. I cannot get the values of 'out' to show up. Basically, I just want to see my estimates for b0,