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Hello, I see that "mclust" is a pacakge that handles fitting mixtures of normals. Are there any other packages out that that can handle mixtures of gammas or other exponentials? Additionally, are there any packages out there that can fit bimodal distributions without mixtures? i.e., Cobb et al. 1983 using moment recursion relations? Thank you! mw Marion Wittmann, Ph.D.

Hello, I am using the package "flexmix", specifically the function "stepFlexmix" and was hoping for some assistance: Here is my input: fit <- stepFlexmix(trips~.,data=data.frame(traveldata),k=1:5,nrep=5,model=FLXMRglm( family="gaussian")) And I recieve the following error message: *Error in FLXfit(model = model, concomitant = concomitant, control =

I've been trying with no success to model mixtures of Gamma distributions using the package flexmix (see examples below). Can anyone help me get it to model better? Thanks very much. -Ben ## ## Please help me get flexmix to correctly model mixtures of ## Gamma distributions. See examples below. ## library('flexmix') ## ## Plot a histogram of dat and the Gamma mixture model given

Dear useRs, FlexMix version 1.0-0 has been released on CRAN. FlexMix implements a general framework for finite mixtures of regression models using the EM algorithm. FlexMix provides the E-step and all data handling, while the M-step can be supplied by the user to easily define new models. Existing drivers implement mixtures of standard linear models, generalized linear models and model-based

Dear useRs, FlexMix version 1.0-0 has been released on CRAN. FlexMix implements a general framework for finite mixtures of regression models using the EM algorithm. FlexMix provides the E-step and all data handling, while the M-step can be supplied by the user to easily define new models. Existing drivers implement mixtures of standard linear models, generalized linear models and model-based

Hi, I have a data matrix in which there are 1000 rows by 30 columns. The first column of each row is a numeric indicating the number of trips taken to a particular location with location attributes in the following column entries for that row. I want to repeat each row based on the number of trips taken (as indicated by the number in the first column)...i.e., if 1,1 indicates 4 trips, I want

Hello, I'm trying out flexmix and mclust for the first time on some univariate data which is typically best described as lognormal, but can sometimes be gamma distributed as well. I first tried using EM on mclust assuming the data was lognormally distributed and could only get it to work in "E" mode, i.e. the equal variance mode. I could never get it to work on "V" mode [

Greetings, I am using the nlm function in a minimization exercise but have consistently received the code: "last global step failed to locate a point lower than 'estimate'...." So it seems that this function is only finding a local minimum, not necessarily a global minimum. Does anyone have a suggestion or recommendation for an alternative package or function within R

Hello, Sorry if this is a repeat, having trouble finding what I need on archive and am a novice with graphics in R! I have plotted the results of a logit regression by factor, where "city" is the factor set name. The problem is city names are too long and I need to rotate them 90 degrees along the xaxis. This is what I've tried... plot(city, predicted.probability, xlab =

Hello list, Has anyone had any luck creating an M-step driver for negative binomial regression for use with package flexmix? I've had a look here: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/flexmix/vignettes/flexmix-intro.pdf as well as poking around in the flexmix source, but I haven't had much luck getting anything to work. I can't figure out how to a) come up with an initial estimate

Hi, I am using the package "flexmix" and would like get some assistance. I am trying to run two equations jointly Y1=X1B+E1 Y2=X2G+E2 So that I have X and Y in a matrix format and would like to run the latent class model using flexmix. Though, my problem here is that Flexmix automatically generates intercepts. I have intercept for both of the equations that my X matrix looks like

Dear R Users, R Core Team, I currently wonder how to predict the probability of an event with new data resulting from a finite mixture. I read the documentation of the flexmix package and the examples of applications provided on CRAN but I could not find how to predict (except "manually" but I am looking for a simpler solution) the final probability of the mixture (for each individual)

I am trying to estimate a latent class multinomial logit regression with flexmix. I am not sure if I should do it as follows: m4<-flexmix(cbind(y,1-y)~x1+x2|id,model=FLXMRglm(family="binomial"),data=NPreg,k=2) , where id links each row with the corresponding respondent. Each respondent has 4 alternatives to chose from. y takes the value 1 only for the alternative chosen; x1 and

Dear R-users, I would like to use the package flexmix to fit latent classes to a regression model. My data are repeated measurements of bernouilli variables so I can use the binomial family link to the glm function. The design is not balanced, meaning that for some individuals in my data set I have 10 measurements or more, for others I only have 5 or even less. My question is the following. Can

Greetings I'm a relatively new R user and I'm trying to build a latent class model. I've used the 'R Site Search' and it appears there's not much dialogue on these packages On mmlcr, I've gotten it working, but not sure if I'm using it correctly. On flexmix, I can only seem to get results for one class. I'm attaching my code below - if anyone

Problem on flexmix when trying to apply signature developed in one model to a new sample. Dear R Users, R Core Team, I have a problem when trying to know the classification of the tested cases using two variables with the function of flexmix: After importing the database and creating a matrix: BM<-cbind(Data$var1,Data$var2) I see that the best model has 2 groups and use: ex2

Dear list: I would like to recreate how the artificial data set BregFix was generated in package flexmix (thanks Bettina and Friedrich). The data set is thoroughly described in Grun and Leisch's Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 51(11) :5247-5252 but references to the appropriate seed number(s) are missing (providing these details was certainly beyond the scope of the authors'

Hi, I was going through the examples in smartpred. It seems there's an unstated dependency on the fitted() function in package flexmix. n = 20 set.seed(86) x = sort(runif(n)) y = sort(runif(n)) library(splines) fit = lm(y ~ ns(x, df=5)) plot(x, y) lines(x, fitted(fit)) # won't work w/o prior loading of the flexmix package. newx = seq(0, 1, len=n) points(newx, predict(fit,

Hello all, I am trying to fit a truncated mixture model and I wrote a driver for flexmix following the example in the vignette, but it doesn't work for me: it assigns all data points to one component only, e.g.: > > source('bugged.R') > > Call: > flexmix(formula = x ~ 1, k = 2, model = truncatedmodel(lower = -4, > upper = 4)) > > prior size

Hi, I am trying to understand how to use the flexmix package, I have read the Leisch paper but am very unclear what is needed for the M-step driver. I am just fitting a simple linear regression model. The documentation is far from clear what the FLXmclust function does, but, it in principle could do all I need, however, I do not get sentible results as if I try the following the result is poor: