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Hi, Is there any R library/package that calculates tetrachoric correlations from given marginals and Pearson correlations among ordinal variables? Inputs to polychor function in polycor package are either contingency tables or ordinal data themselves. I am looking for something that takes marginal distributions and Pearson correlation as inputs. For example, Y1=(1,2,3) with P(Y1=1)=0.3,

Hi, If a matrix is not positive definite, make.positive.definite() function in corpcor library finds the nearest positive definite matrix by the method proposed by Higham (1988). However, when I deal with correlation matrices whose diagonals have to be 1 by definition, how do I do it? The above-mentioned function seem to mess up the diagonal entries. [I haven't seen this complication, but

Hi, Is there any Fortran compiler that generates R-compatible object files ? (For Windows based systems) Thanks, Hakan Demirtas Pennsylvania State University Department of Statistics [[alternate HTML version deleted]]

Hi, Is there any R library that is capable of handling polygamma function (Hurwitz zeta function also works)? I am aware of digamma(0 and trigamma(), but could not find more advanced versions. I'd appreciate any help. Hakan Demirtas

Didn't get any useful response to the following question. Trying again. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I can't seem to get computationally stable estimates for the following system: Y=a+bX+cX^2+dX^3, where X~N(0,1). (Y is expressed as a linear combination of the first three powers of a standard normal variable.) Assuming that E(Y)=0 and

Hi, What R libraries should I use to implement mixed effects models with continuous time and discrete-time survival data? What if I have two crossed random effects? I'd appreciate any help. Regards, Hakan Demirtas [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, Suppose x and y are vectors whose elements are known. I know that there is a sinusoidal relation between them. In other words, y=a*sin(bx) where b is probably a function of pi. How do I find a and b in R? Hakan [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Does lmer do three-level mixed-effects models? What forms of outcome variables can it handle (continuous, survival, binary)? I'd appreciate any help.

Thanks to those who responded to my inquiry about generalized linear mixed models on R and S-plus. Before I summarize the software, I note that there are several ways of doing statistical inference for generalized linear mixed models: (1)Standard maximum likelihood estimation, computationally intensive due to intractable likelihood function (2) Penalized quasi likelihood or similar

I am trying to incorporate random effects (random intercept is good enough) to a proportional odds logistic regression model for ordinal outcomes. Could lme4 do this? I'd appreciate any input. Hakan Demirtas

Hi all, The survivals functions can be tested by the Log-rank test and others, for example the Gehan-Breslow. The graham breslow work with the alpha values. But I don't know how is the Gehan-Breslow test with R. Somebody know a type function?.. or other suggestions? Any help will be really appreciated Jos? Bustos Marine Biologist Master Apllied Stat Program University of Concepci?n

Hi All, does anyone know if the package GLME by J. Pinheiro is available anywhere in any form? checking on the archive I got that it was at some point, as as a beta version (for S-Plus only, alas)... Cheers, Federico ========================= Federico C.F. Calboli Department of Biology University College London Room 327 Darwin Building Gower Street London WClE 6BT Tel: (+44) 020 7679 4395

Hello! could you give me some advice where i can finde out/recieve/download a GLME package, written by Jose Pinheiro. i couldn'ti find it in the package lists (probably becouse it is still in a beta version). thank you for your replay

Dear all, I have been trying to find a function to calculate the Breslow-Day test for homogeneity of the odds ratio in R. I know the test can be preformed in SAS but i was wondering if anyone could help me to perform this in r. In addition i have the fullrefman file to search for functions in the basic R packages, does anyone have any suggestions of an efficient way of searching for

Breslow-Day test A statistical test for the homogeneity of odds ratios. Homogeneity In <javascript:void(0);> systematic reviews homogeneity refers to the degree to which the results of studies included in a review are similar. "Clinical homogeneity" means that, in studies included in a review, the participants, interventions and outcome measures are similar or comparable.

Hi all, I want to know how to perform the test Breslow-Day test for homogeneity of odds ratios (OR) stratified for svytable. This test is obtained with the following code: epi.2by2 (dat = daty, method = "case.control" conf.level = 0.95, units = 100, homogeneity = "breslow.day", verbose = TRUE) where "daty" is the object type table svytable consider it, but

Hello, I have tried to generate numbers randomly which follow normal, Student-t and skewed Student-t distributions. However, when I check those series for heteroscedastisity test (ARCH) results are showing that there is no heteroscedastisity. As we all know, returns (financial returns) usually have heteroscedastisity. My question is, is it possible somehow generate random numbers which have

Dear R-users, I am checking the proportional hazard assumption of a cox model for a given covariate, let say Z1, after adjusting for other relavent covariates in the model. To this end, I fitted cox model stratified on the discrete values of Z1 and try to get beslow estimator for the baseline cumulative hazard function (H(t)) in each stratum. As far as i know, if the proportionality assumption

Good day, Please, How/where can I add an application to start at boot up. Don't seem to find it in options available Thanks Johan

Dear all, Please let me start by indicating that I am not from a technical background, so please be gentle and patient with me. I am trying to get a snapshot from my virtual machines (vm) and the following command works for all of them bar one: # virsh snapshot-create-as --quiesce --no-metadata --domain myvm myvm-state --diskspec vda,file=overlay.qcow2 --disk-only --atomic The only exception is