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Hi all, I am hardly an expert, so I expect that this code is not the easiest/ most efficient way of getting where I want. Any suggestions in that direction would also be helpful. I am working on panel analysis with five imputed datasets, generated by Amelia. To do panel analysis, it seemed that the plm package was the best, providing a convenient wrapper for fixed and random effects

Hi all, I want to check if this is a bug for which I should file a report. I am using R2.5.0 on OS X 10.4.9. When I invoke the data editor and when I change the values of individual cells, it seems to work as intended. However, when I try to delete/add a row/column, R.app crashes. I've attached the crash log. Best, -Nathan -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and

Hi all, I am trying to run the mice package (for multiple imputation) on a data frame that is 5174 x 100. When I run mice(frame), I get the following response: Error in solve.default(t(xobs) %*% xobs) : Lapack routine dgesv: system is exactly singular and execution stops. I'm no expert at matrix algebra, so if someone could explain this to me and what I can do to get around it,

R-users & helpers: I am using Amelia, mitools and cmprsk to fit cumulative incidence curves to multiply imputed datasets. The error message that I get "Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : invalid 'envir' argument" occurs when I try to fit models to the 50 imputed datasets using the "with.imputationList" function of mitools. The problem seems to occur

Hey there I am estimating a multilevel model using lmer. I have 5 imputed datasets so I am using mitools to pool the estimates from the 5 > > datasets. Everything seems to work until I try to use > MIcombine to produced pooled estimates. Does anyone have any suggestions? The betas and the standard errors were extracted with no problem so everything seems to work smoothly up until

R-helpers: I am using R 2.5 on Windows XP, packages all up to date. I have run into an issue with the MIcombine function of the mitools package that I hoped some of you might be able to help with. I will work through a reproducible example to demonstrate the issue. First, make a dataset from the pbc dataset in the survival package --------------- # Make a dataset library(survival) d <-

Hi folks, I have five imputed data sets and would like to apply the same recoding routines to each. I could do this sort of thing pretty easily in Stata using MIM, but I've decided to go cold turkey on other stats packages as a incentive for learning more about R. Most of the recoding is for nominal variables, like race, religion, urbanicity, and the like. So, for example, to recode race

R 2.2.0 windows XP I am beginning to explore the mitools package contributed by Thomas Lumley (thank you Thomas) and I have a few questions: (1) In the examples given in the mitools documentation, the only family argument used is family=binomial. Does the package support family=gaussian and other link functions? I ran the with function with family=gaussian and I obtained results, but I am not

Hello, I am trying to use the plm package for panel econometrics. I am just trying to get started and load my data. It seems from most of the sample documentation that I need to use the pdata.frame function to get my data loaded. However, even after installing the "plm" package, my R installation cannot find the function. I am trying to follow the example in plmEN.pdf (

Dear All, I'm looking to perform an ANOVA between two nested panel fixed effects models. I tried with anova, as well as with waldtest. anova tells me there is no method available for plm objects, while waldtest tells me my models are not nested. I think they are instead. The difference between the two models is that in the second I let the regression coefficients of a given variable variate

Hello, I am switching to R from Stata and I am having particular trouble with the transition from Stata's 'xtabond' and 'ivreg' commands to the "plm" package. I am trying to replicate some of the dynamic panel data work using the UK Employment data in Arellano and Bond (1991) and available as 'EmplUK' under the 'plm' package. I have been

Dear plm Package users, I use the plm package a lot but I have not updated it for some times. Now I realized the following difficulty with the summary.plm function (demonstrated with the example from the ?plm documentation). library(plm) data("Produc", package="Ecdat") estimation_method<-"within" estimation_effect<-"individual" zz

Hello. Just a quick follow-up, for other 'plm' users on the list: - the problem turned out to be logs of zero values hidden in the big dataset - trying log(xx) would not reveal the problem, because log(0)=-Inf is a valid result in log() while it is an invalid input to plm() --> it is always advisable to try lm(yourformula, yourdata) as a first diagnostic check when plm(yourformula,

Dear "plm"-Package insiders, [I posted the following observation is April already but unfortunately I am not aware of any answers. With the hope that someone found an answer in the mean time, I ask again:] I realized the following difficulty with the summary.plm function (demonstrated with the example from the ?plm documentation). library(plm) data("Produc",

Dear Sir, Thank you for accepting my request for registration on this site. I am trying to solve panel data problems using plm package , but while suing random effect model i am getting following messege saying " Warning message:In sqrt(sigma2) : NaNs produced " In some other cases i am getting message saying where TSS = NA , that I am not understanding I am sending you my code along

Hi all, I have a problem in installing and using the plm package using R 2.2.0 on windows xp. I installed it from a .zip file downloaded from the CRAN. Apparently everything is ok: > utils:::menuInstallLocal() package 'plm' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked updating HTML package descriptions However, when I try to load it: > library(plm) Errore in lazyLoadDBfetch(key,

Dear Kailas Gokhale, The negative individual variance is not a problem with your code or plm. It a property of your data. Please check the posts of Giovanni Millo on this topic: [R] R: plm random effect: the estimated variance of the individual effect is negative Millo Giovanni Giovanni_Millo at Generali.com Sat Jan 5 10:10:01 CET 2013 You can find the posts in the archive by rseek.org.

I have an unexpected result with the functions lag() and diff() in the plm (panel data) package when used with transform(). These plm-specific functions are supposed to generate lags and first differences within each panel. lag() does not work properly the first time (it reproduces the same series--this is a common time series pitfall), BUT then it does work properly when it is run a second

Hello, I am working on a data set (already as a plm.data object) located here: http://econsteve.com/arch/plmWithDensity.Robj With the following R session: > library(plm) ... >load("plmWithDensity.Robj") >model <- plm(RATE ~ density08, data=plmWithDensity) Error: subscript out of bounds I am not understanding the "subscript out of bounds" error, as this is a

Hello Giovanni I made a minor modification to your function, which now allows to compute the within R-sq in Twoways Within models (see below). However I ran into an issue that I have already encountered before: whenever I try to fit Twoways Within models on my unbalanced data, the process is strangely slow and I usually terminate it either after ~15min or when my CPU hits 100C. This is similar to