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Dear all, I am trying to use the logistic regression with MCMClogit (package: MCMCpack/Coda) and I want to put a beta prior on the parameters, but it's giving me error message (please see output below) no matter what shape 1 or 2 I use. It works perfect with the cauchy or normal priors. Do you know if there is a catch there somewhere? Thanks logpriorfun <- function(beta,shape1,shape2){

Hi everyone: I am just wondering how can I use weights with MCMClogit function (in MCMCpack package). For example, in case of glm function as given below, there is weights option in the arguments. Aparently there is no option of using weights in MCMClogit. glm(formula, family = gaussian, data, weights, subset, na.action, start = NULL, etastart, mustart, offset, control =

Hi, I have a dataset with the binary outcome Y(0,1) and 4 covariates (X1,X@,X#,X$). I am trying to use MCMClogit to model logistic regression using MCMC. I am getting an error where it doesnt identify the covariates ,although its reading in correctly. The dataset is a sample of actual dataset. Below is my code: > ####################### > > > #retreive data > # considering four

Hello everybody, I'm new to MCMClogit. I'm trying to use MCMClogit to fit a logistic regression model but I got some warnings I can't understand. My input data X is 32(tissue sample)*20(genes) matrix, each element in this matrix corresponds to the expression value of one particular gene in one of 32 samples. And the Y presents the corresponding classes (0-non cancer, 1-cancer)

I'm having some problems in installing some source packages under linux. As an example, MCMCpack. An error is raised when linking: > install.packages("MCMCpack") [...] * Installing *source* package 'MCMCpack' ... checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking

Hi guys! I have a problem regarding a binary logistic hierarchical model I am trying to use. The model contains various covariates that depend on the location the response was measured at but do not depend on time (year). I also have a spatial covariate that depends both on location and time. I have been trying to use the lme4 pack but the package only allows me to model variance covariance

Hi, I've been testing some models with the MCMCpack library. I can run the process and get a nice model "object". I can easily see the summary and even plot it. I can't seem to figure out how to: 1) Access the final coefficients in the model 2) Turn the coefficients into a model so I can then run predictions using them. A summary command will SHOW Me the coefficients, but

Deal all, as MCMClogit does not allow for the specification of several chains, I have run my model 3 times with different random number seeds and differently dispersed multivariate normal priors. For example: res1 = MCMClogit(y~x,b0=0,B0=0.001,data=mydat, burnin=500, mcmc=5500, seed=1234, thin=5) res2 = MCMClogit(y~x,b0=1,B0=0.01,data=mydat, burnin=500, mcmc=5500, seed=5678, thin=5) res3 =

Is there a way to recover Metropolis-step acceptance rates AFTER completing posterior draws? The immediate application is in the probit.bayes and logit.bayes models used by Zelig... which I believe is merely calling MCMCpack. So one strategy, to which I am fixing to resort, is to call, say, MCMClogit with verbose set to mcmc (or mcmc divided by an integer) and then look at my screen.

Dear useRs, I have written a function that implements a Bayesian method to compare a patient's score on two tasks with that of a small control group, as described in Crawford, J. and Garthwaite, P. (2007). Comparison of a single case to a control or normative sample in neuropsychology: Development of a bayesian approach. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 24(4):343?372. The function (see

Dear R-users (and developers), I am looking for an efficient framework to carry out parameter estimations based on MCMC (optionally with specified priors). My goal is as follow: * take ANY R-function returning a likelihood-value (this function may itself call external programmes or other code!) * run a sampler that covers the multidimensional parameter space (thus creating a posterior

I have found myself doing a large amount of Bayesian analysis and I am uncertain what framework learn and I'm posing this question to get a sense of perspective. As I am doing a lot of applied work right now, I need to do a fair amount of "standard data analysis" (eg mixed models, glm, etc) but I also have to have the flexibility to write more complicated models. As near as I can

Hi everyone, I am running an ordinal probit using the Bayesian MCMCpack and I am getting an error saying "attempt for find suitable starting values failed" Here is my code: > posterior <- MCMCoprobit(y ~ x1 + x2 + x3 + x4 + x5 + x6 + x7 + x8 +x9 + x10 + x11 + x12 +x13 , beta.start=c(-10, 0.05, 0.02, 0.04, 0.98, 0.61, -0.29, 0.91, -0.82, 1.34, 0.68, 0.57, 0.09, 0.5), mcmc=10000)

Dear R-helpers, Hi! All. I'm doing a project which needs MCMC simulation. I wonder whether there exists related packages in R. The only one I know is a MCMCpack package. What I want to do is implementing gibbs sampling and Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm to get the posterior of hierarchical bayesian models. Thanks in advance. Jun

Dear All, Since no one has answered my previous question, let me revise it a little and ask again. My data set contains about 10,000 women born in 60 months. The outcome variable is a binary variable indicating whether one has certain health problems. My hypothesis is that the 60 months in which these women were born can be divided into three distinctive periods with respect to the binary

Is there a way to do hierarchical (bayesian) logistic regression in R, the way we do it in BUGS? For example in BUGS we can have this model: model {for(i in 1:N) { y[i] ~ dbin(p[i],n[i]) logit(p[i]) <- beta0+beta1*x1[i]+beta2*x2[i]+beta3*x3[i] } sd ~ dunif(0,10) tau <- pow(sd, -2) beta0 ~ dnorm(0,0.1) beta1 ~ dnorm(0,tau) beta2 ~ dnorm(0,tau) beta3 ~

Hello, I am about to move all of my modelling work into R, and I have been investigating the present state of MCMC and Bayesian methods in R. Following a thread on the mailing list in 2000, I have looked at mcmcpack and Hydra. Three years down the line, is there anything new in this area? I have used both MCSim and WinBUGS in the past. The first one seems promising, but is too focused towards

I'm just starting to learn to use R, and although I'm seeing lots of functions aimed at doing orthodox statistical analyses, I don't see the same for Bayesian analyses. What support does R have for Bayesian statistics?

I have several demographic variables with which I want to explain the ordered choice of individuals within a survey in an ordered choice (probit or logit, this is not important) framework. Standard ordered choice estimations of course just give me aggregate/average parameter estimates. For my task it would however be useful to estimate or extract "hypothetical" individual-level parameter

Hi all, I would like to start to use R's MCMC abilities to compute answers in Bayesian statistics. I don't have any specific problems in mind yet, but I would like to be able to compute/sample posterior probabilities for low-dimensional custom models, as well as handle "standard" Bayesian cases like linear regression and hierarchical models. R clearly has a lot of abilities in