similar to: question of correlation structure in gls

Hi, nlme users, I am fitting a model for repeated measures, using gls(). The var-cov structure is UNSTRUCTURED in lower triangle and identical for the diagonal, for which I still have no idea how to fit using PROC MIXED. The error message is as follows: Error in "coef<-.corNatural"(*tmp*, value = log((cStNatPar + 1)/(1 - cStNatPar))) : NA/NaN/Inf in foreign function call

Hi All How can I fit a repeated measures analysis using gls? I want to start with a unstructured correlation structure, as if the the measures at the occations are not longitudinal (no AR) but plainly multivariate (corSymm). My data (ignore the prox_pup and gender, occ means occasion): > head(dta,12) teacher occ prox_self prox_pup gender 1 1 0 0.76 0.41 1 2

Dear List: My question is more statistical than R oriented (although it originates from my work with nlme). I know statistical questions are occasionally posted, so I hope my question is relevant to the list as I cannot turn up a solution anywhere else. I will frame it in the context of an R related issue. To illustrate the problem, consider student achievement test score data with multiple

Dear R-users I am relatively new to R, i hope my many novice questions are welcome. I have problems accessing some objects (specifically the random effects, correlation structure and variance function) from an object of class gls and lme. I used the following models: yah <- gls (outcome~ -1 + as.factor(Trial):as.factor(endpoint)+

Hi all, I am trying to get a handle on gls (package nlme). I have a toy problem: 3 fixed factors (A, B, C), two levels each, 5 replicates per treatment. The response variable is continuous, normal. I have a correlation matrix of the form: > mat A B C A 1.00 0.75 0 B 0.75 1.00 0 C 0.00 0.00 1 which is common to all observations. How do I construct the call to gls? I think I need to

Hi, To simplify, suppose I have 2 observations each day for three days. I would like to define the correlation structure of these 6 observations as follows: the correlation of 2 observations on the same day is, say, alpha, the correlation for 2 observations one day apart is rho and the correlation for 2 observations 2 days apart is rho^2. I.e. I would like to have an AR1 correlation + a

Hello I'm fitting a gls model with a variance-covariance structure and an getting an error message I don't understand I'm using gls() from the nlme library with the structure defined by correlation = corSymm(form = ~1|Subject), weights = varIdent(form=~1|strata) I get the error Error in recalc.corSymm(object[[i]], conLin) : NA/NaN/Inf in foreign function call (arg 1) My

There is a bug in 'anova.gls' in the 'nlme' package (3.1-90). The=20 bug is triggered by calling the function with a single 'gls' object=20 and specifying the 'Terms' argument but not the 'L' argument: > library(nlme) > fm1Orth.gls <- gls(distance ~ Sex * I(age - 11), Orthodont, + correlation =3D corSymm(form =3D ~ 1 |

Dear R-users, I hope you will have time to read me and I will try to be brief. I am also sorry for my poor english. I used gls function from the package nlme to correct two types of bias in my database. At first, because my replicates are spatially aggregated, I would like to fit a corStruct function like corLin, corSpher, corRatio, corExp or corGaus in my gls model, and simultaneously,

How does one coerce predict.gls to incorporate the fitted correlation structure from the gls object into predictions? In the example below the AR(1) process with phi=0.545 is not used with predict.gls. Is there another function that does this? I'm going to want to fit a few dozen models varying in order from AR(1) to AR(3) and would like to look at the fits with the correlation structure

I am using the gls function to fit a two-stage least squares model with first order autoregressive error terms. Since there is no automated adjustment for the use of two-stage least squares in this package, I am trying to manually replicate standard errors of the coefficient estimates in order to adjust for a first stage OLS estimate of endogenous variables. However, thus far I have been unable to

Hi folks, I was wondering how to run a mixed models approach to analyze a linear regression with a user-defined covariance structure. I have my model y = xa +zb +e and b ~ N (0, C*sigma_square). (and a is a fixed effects) I would like to provide R the C (variance-covariance) matrix I can easily provide an example, but at this point I am first trying to know what is the best package the

Dear listers, I am trying to model the distribution of fox density over years in the Doubs department. Measurements have been taken on 470 plots in March each year and georeferenced. Average density is supposed to be different each year. In a first approach, I would like to use a general model of this type, taking spatial correlation into account:

Dear Madams/Sirs, Hello. I am using the gls function to specify an arma correlation during estimation in my model. The parameter values which I am sending the corARMA function are from a previous fit using arima. I have had some success with the method, however in other cases I get the following error from gls: "All parameters must be less than 1 in absolute value". None of

Hello there fellow R users, Im trying to fit a gls model to data which has serial correlation in the errors e(t)=p*e(t-1). However I dont seem to be having much luck in erradicating the autocorrelation in the residuals. I have created the following example. library(nlme) x<-rnorm(100) y<-3+2*x y<-y+arima.sim(100,model=list(ar=(0.6)))+rnorm(100,0,0.2) #Create a data set with first

Hello, I am using R2.5 under Windows. Looks like the following statement vars <- (obj$sigma^2)*vw in getVarCov.gls method (nlme package) needs to be replaced with: vars <- (obj$sigma*vw)^2 With best regards Andrzej Galecki Douglas Bates wrote: >I'm not sure when the getVarCov.gls method was written or by whom. To >tell the truth I'm not really sure what

Hello listmembers, I've been thinking of using gls in the nlme package to test for serial correlation in my data set. I've simulated a sample data set and have found a large discrepancy in the results I get when using the default method REML vs. ML. The data set involves a response that is measured twice a day (once for each level of a treatment factor). In my simulated data set, I

Hi, r-users I got a problem when I try to call a *gls* function in loop structure. The gls function seems not able to recognize the parameters that I pass into the loop function! (But, if I use lm function, it works.) The code looks like this: ================================================= gls.lm <- function(Data, iv1, dv1) { gls.model <- gls(Data[ , dv1] ~ Data[ , iv1], correlation =

Dear R-helpers, This may sound simple to you, but I'm a beginner in this, so please be forgiving. I have a following problem: two analytes were measured in patient's blood on 4 occasions: ProteinA and ProteinB. How to correctly evaluate correlation between ProteinA and ProteinB? I tried: x <- data.frame(Patient.ID=rep(1:10, each=4), Visit=rep(c(1:4),10), ProteinA=rnorm(m=10,

Dear all, I am trying to define my own corStruct which is different from the classical one available in nlme. The structure of this correlation is given below. I am wondering to know how to continue with this structure by using specific functions (corMatrix, getCovariate, Initialize,...) in order to get a structure like corAR1, corSymm which will be working for my data. Thanks in advance.