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Dear All, I have conducted an experiment in order to examine predation pressure in the surroundings of potential wildlife road-crossing structures. I have documented predation occurrence (binary?) in these structures and calculated several possible explanatory variables describing the spatial heterogeneity in several scales. At the landscape scale I have calculated the percentage of different

Hello, and sorry for asking a question without the data - hope it can still be answered: I've run two things on the same data: # Using lme: mix.lme <- lme(DV ~a+b+c+d+e+f+h+i, random = random = ~ e+f+h+i| group, data = mydata) # Using lmer mix.lmer <- lmer(DV ~a+b+c+d+(1|group)+(e|group)+(f|group)+(h|group)+(i|group), data = mydata) lme provided an output (fixed effects and random

Hey, I am having trouble with lmer. I am looking at the presence/absence of water shrews against habitat and other factors e.g so I used this: m1<-lmer(Presencebsence~Habitatype*Width+(1|Sitename))summary(m1) But i keep getting this error up Error in mer_finalize(ans) : Downdated X'X is not positive definite, 16.> summary(m1)Error in asMethod(object) : matrix is not symmetric [1,2] What

Hi all, I am fairly new to mixed effects models and lmer, so bear with me. Here is a subset of my data, which includes a binary variable (lake (TOM or JAN)), one other fixed factor (Age) and a random factor (Year). lake FishID Age Increment Year 1 TOM 1 1 0.304 2007 2 TOM 1 2 0.148 2008 3 TOM 1 3 0.119 2009 4 TOM 1 4 0.053 2010 5

Hello, I hope that you can bare with me. I am new to models, but I think I have a pretty godd understanding of how to run them now, including how to use AICc and Anova. The issue is that I have many factors that I wish to compare so doing each one at a time would take forever. I came across the MuMIn package and I was so excited, however I am getting an error message and i don't know why.

Dear R users, I am trying to fit a GLMM to the following dataset; tab a b c 1 1 0.6 199320100313 2 1 0.8 199427100412 3 1 0.8 199427202112 4 1 0.2 199428100611 5 1 1.0 199428101011 6 1 0.8 199428101111 7 0 0.8 199527103011 8 1 0.6 199527200711 9 0 0.8 199527202411 10 0 0.6 199529100412 11 1 0.2 199626201111 12 2 0.8 199627200612 13 1 0.4 199628100111 14 1 0.8

I've been using lme4 to fit Poisson GLMMs with crossed random effects. The data are counts(y) sampled at 55 sites over 4 (n=12) or 5 (n=43) years. Most models use three fixed effects: x1 is a two level factor; x2 and x3 are continuous. We are including random intercepts for YEAR and SITE. On subject-matter considerations, we are also including a random coefficient for x3 within YEAR.

Hello, I have been attempting to run a poisson glmm using lme4 for some time now and have had a lot of trouble. I would say 9 times out of 10 I receive the following warning: CHOLMOD warning: %h Error in mer_finalize(ans) : Cholmod error `not positive definite' at file:../Cholesky/t_cholmod_rowfac.c, line 432 My data are counts of microbe colony forming units (CFUs) collected from

Dear All, After playing with lmer for couple of days, I have to say that I am amazed! I've been using quite some multilevel/mixed modeling packages, lme4 is a strong candidate for the overall winner, especially for multilevel generzlized linear models. Now go back to my two-level poisson model with cross-classified model. I've been testing various different model specificatios for the

Hello, I am trying to use the lmer function from the lme4 package I have installed today (lme4_0.999375-32.zip; R-2.10.1). According to the information, I should be able to use a generalized linear mixed model. However when I try to fit a model with Gamma distribution of the errors, it gives me the following error model1<-lmer(Cmic~1+(1|FOREST/DEPTH),data=DATOS,family=Gamma) Error en

Dear R Users, I am having trouble with lmer. I am looking at recombinant versus non recombinant individuals. In the response variable recombinant individuals are coded as 1's and non-recombinant as 0's. I built a model with 2 fixed factors and 1 random effect. Sex (males/females) is the first fixed effect and sexual genotype (XY, YY, WX and WY) the second one. Sexual Genotype is

Dear List: I was able to run the following in nlme successfully, but the same model and code (same dataset) failed to run in lme4 and gave me the error message below. Any thoughts? lme(math~year, data=egsingle, random=~year|schoolid/childid) Error in lme(formula = math ~ year, data = egsingle, random = structure(list( : Unable to invert singular factor of downdated X'X

I'm resending this message because I did not include a subject line in my first posting. Apologies for the inconvenience! Tanja > Hello, > > I'm trying to fit a generalized linear mixed model to estimate diabetes prevalence at US county level. To do this I'm using the glmer() function in package lme4. I can fit relatively simple models (i.e. few covariates) but when

Dear list, i'm a new R user, so I apologize if the topic is already being addressed by some other user. I'm trying to determine if the reproductive success of a species of bird is related to a list of covariates. These are the covariates: ? elev: elevation of nest (meters) ? seadist: distance from the sea (meters) ? meanterranova: records of temperature ? minpengS1: records

Dear list, I am new to this list and I am new to the world of R. Additionally I am not very firm in statistics either but have to deal. So here is my problem: I have a dataset (which I attach at the end of the post) with a binomial response variable (alive or not) and three fixed factors (trapping,treat,sex). I do have repeated measures and would like to include one (enclosure) random factor. I

Hi - I am doing some monte carlo simulations comparing bayesian (using Plummer's jags) and maximum likelihood (using lmer from package lme4 by Bates et al). I would like to know if there is a way I can flag nonconvergence and exceptions. Currently the simulations just stop and the output reads things like: Error in optim(.Call("lmer_coef", x, 2, PACKAGE = "Matrix"), fn,

Hello, I'm trying to run an lmer model with family poisson but receive the following warning message: model<-lmer(count~tem+dat+alt+year+tem:dat+tem:alt+tem:year+dat:alt+dat:year+alt:year+(1|id),family=poisson) Error in objective(.par, ...) : Leading minor of order 2 in downdated X'X is not positive definite I'm using the newest version of R and recently installed the

Dear all, I have tried to calculate a GLMM fit with lmer (lme4) and glmmPQL (MASS), I also used glm for comparison. I am getting very different results from different functions, and I suspect that the problem is with our dataset rather than the functions, but I would appreciate help in deciding whether my suspicions are right. If indeed we are attempting the wrong type of analysis, some

Hi, I would appreciate help with the following model <<1>>= gunload <- read.table(hh('datasets/gunload.dat'), header = T) gunload$method <- factor(gunload$method, labels = c('new', 'old')) gunload$physique <- factor(gunload$group, labels = c('slight', 'average', 'heavy')) gunload$team9 <- factor(rep(1:9, each = 2)) @ This

Hello! I am trying to run a GLMM using LME4, and keep getting the warning message: "In mer_finalize(ans) : false convergence (8)" I am quite new to R, and in looking into this thus far, it appears that there are a variety of reasons why this might occur, such as needing to standardize some parameters or if all subjects in one combination of parameters all have the same outcome. I also