similar to: half-logit and glm (again)

Dear R users, I'm struggling with applying a user-defined link function in lmer. For analyzing data of a 2AFC psychophysical experiment, I would like to model my binary data with a logistic function with a lower limit at 0.5 instead of 0. In a previous question this has been described as a halflogit function. To do so I wrote my own link function and would like to submit it to lmer, however

Greetings, everyone. I've been trying to analyze bird nest survival data using generalized linear mixed models (because we documented several consecutive nesting attempts by the same individuals; i.e. repeated measures data) and have been unable to persuade the various GLMM models to work with my user-defined link function. Actually, glmmPQL seems to work, but as I want to evaluate a suite of

G'day all, I had a look at the GLM code of R (1.4.1) and I believe that there are problems with the function "glm.fit" that may bite in rare circumstances. Note, I have no data set with which I ran into trouble. This report is solely based on having a look at the code. Below I append a listing of the glm.fit function as produced by my system. I have added line numbers so that I

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

Dear list, I'm trying to mimic the analysis of Wedderburn (1974) as cited by McCullagh and Nelder (1989) on p.328-332. This is the leaf-blotch on barley example, and the data is available in the `faraway' package. Wedderburn suggested using the variance function mu^2(1-mu)^2. This variance function isn't readily available in R's `quasi' family object, but it seems to me

I have constructed the function mml2 (below) based on the likelihood function described in the minimal latex I have pasted below for anyone who wants to look at it. This function finds parameter estimates for a basic Rasch (IRT) model. Using the function without the gradient, using either nlminb or optim returns the correct parameter estimates and, in the case of optim, the correct standard

under "Details" (version 2015-11-29 r69717; not quite cutting-edge, but nothing has changed in src/library/stats/man/family.Rd in 5 months [sorry for using the Github mirror, but I prefer the interface ... <https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/trunk/src/library/stats/man/family.Rd>]) it says: valid.mu: logical function. Returns ?TRUE? if a mean vector ?mu? is within the

Greetings: I'm running R2.6.2 on a WinXP DELL box with 2 gig RAM. I have created a new glm link function to be used with family = binomial. The function works (although any suggested improvements would be welcome), logit.FC <- function(POD.floor = 0, POD.ceiling =1) { if (POD.floor < 0 | POD.floor > 1) stop ("POD.floor must be between zero and one.") if

Hello List, I am modeling a binomial response (nest survival) and I want to incorporate a random effect, in this case site. I had previously been using glm with a custom link function, but my understanding is that lmer does not currently allow a custom link. Therefore, I was investigating if other procedures for mixed models will allow a custom link function. here is the custom link function:

I need to refresh my memory on Probability Theory, especially on conditional probability. In particular, I want to solve the following two problems. Can somebody point me some good books on Probability Theory? Thank you! 1. Z=X+Y, where X and Y are independent random variables and their distributions are known. Now, I want to compute E(X | Z = z). 2.Suppose that I have $I \times J$ random number

Hello All, I am looking for an R library/function that allows the specification of a custom link function in a linear mixed model. I've been using glm() in library MASS to fit fixed-effect models with a custom link but my study design demands mixed models. Any suggestions on the best R library/function to achieve this would be greatly appreciated. I have tried, to no avail, to

Hi all I am converting an S-Plus function into R. The S-Plus code uses some of the glm families, and family objects. The family objects in S-Plus and R have many different features, for example: In R: > names(Gamma()) [1] "family" "link" "linkfun" "linkinv" "variance" [6] "dev.resids" "aic"

Hello, I'm trying to fit a special kind of proportional odds model from: Whitehead et al. (2001). Meta-analysis of ordinal outcome using individual patient data. Statistics in medicine 20: 2243-2260. (model 2) The data are as follows: library(nlme) library(geepack) library(Design) library(MASS) options(contrasts=c("contr.SAS","contr.poly")) counts <-

I use smooth.spline(x, y) in package modreg and I would like to get value of penalized log likelihood and preferable also its two parts. To make clear what I am asking for (and make sure that I am asking for the right thing) I clarify my problem trying to use the same notation as in help(smooth.spline): I want to find the natural cubic spline f(x) such that L(f) = \sum_{k=1}{n} w[k](y[k] -

Dear R-Users, I wish to create a new family object based on the Binomial family. The only difference will be with the link function. Thus instead if using the 'logit(u)' link function, i plan to use '-log(i-u)'. So far, i have tried to write the function following that of the Binomial and Negative Binomial families. The major problem i have here is with the definition of the

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

Dear all I am using NAMESPACE in my package but I would like the user to be able to overwrite four functions: own.linkfun, own.linkinv, own.mu.eta and own.valideta. These are used to defined "own" link functions. Is there any way of doing that without getting the when I am checking the package? This is what I am getting: make.link.gamlss : linkfun: no visible binding for global

Hi, I wish to write a new link function for a GLM. R's glm routine does not supply the "loglog" link. I modified the make.link function adding the code: }, loglog = { linkfun <- function(mu) -log(-log(mu)) linkinv <- function(eta) exp(-exp(-eta)) mu.eta <- function(eta) exp(-exp(-eta)-eta) valideta <- function(eta) all(eta != 0)

Here's a patch that should make predict.glm(..., type="response") retain the names. The change passes make check on our Opteron running SLES9. One simple test is: names(predict(glm(y ~ x, family=binomial, data=data.frame(y=c(1, 0, 1, 0), x=c(1, 1, 0, 0))), newdata=data.frame(x=c(0, 0.5, 1)), type="response")) which gives [1]

Dear R developers, I was looking for a function analogous to base::diag() for getting and setting bands of a matrix. The closest I could find was Matrix::band(), but this was not exactly what I wanted for two reasons. Firstly, Matrix::band() returns a matrix rather than just the specified band. Secondly, Matrix::band() cannot be used for setting the values for a matrix band. Setting or