similar to: nlme gls() error

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)+

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 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

Hi Just one of those niggles....... I've just been trying to plot a filled circle. I thought that this would do it plot(1,1,type="n") points(1,1,pch=1,bg="blue",cex=5) #bg: background ("fill") color for open plot symbols But I need to do this instead points(1.2,1,pch=19,col="blue",cex=5) Am I misunderstanding the "bg" option in the points

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

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

Hello, I'm fitting linear mixed models to gene-expression data from microarrays, in a data set where 4608 genes are studied. For a sample of 5 subjects and for each gene we observe the expression level (Intensity) in four different tissues: N, Tp, Tx and M. I want to test whether the expression level is different accross tissues. Between-subject variability is modeled with a random

Hello, I've been looking in the on-line manuals and searching past posts but can't find an answer to this question. I'd like to define my own variance function in a GLM. The function glm(formula, family=quasi(var="var function")) lets me choose from a selection of built in variances, but I want to define my own function for the variance. Is there an S-plus

Hello folks, Any ideas how to do this? data.frame is a data frame with column names "x1",...,"xn" y is a response variable of length dim(data.frame)[1] I want to write a function function(y, data.frame){ lm(y~x1+...+xn) } This would be easy if n was always the same. If n is arbitrary how could I feed the x1+...+xn terms into lm(response~terms)? Thanks Richard -- Dr.

Hello, I've had a quick look on the list and can't find an answer to this niggle. Whilst debugging some code, I noticed that looping variables in R are not local to the loop as seams common in procedural languages. For example consider the following piece of code: for(i in 1:3){ cat(i,"") for(i in c("a","b","c")){ cat(i,"")

I've got a gls formula that's a mix of continuous and ordered variables. I wanted to use gls because I wanted to use the varIdent structure. Anyway, attempts to use "predict.gls" choke with the error that the levels I use are not allowed for one of them -- the first one alphabetically, so I'd guess the second would have the same problem. So I have three linked questions --

Dear All, I am using the function gls (in the nlme package) and I would like to fit a heteroscedastic model, with different variances for each of the levels of two stratification variables. In p. 210 of Pinheiro & Bates ("Mixed effects models in S and S-Plus", 2000, Springer), the authors show the use of the "*" operator. However, that is not what I want, because it

Hi all, I understand that gls() uses generalized least squares, but I thought that maybe optimum weights from gls might be used as weights in lm (as shown below), but apparently this is not the case. See: library(nlme) f1 <- gls(Petal.Width ~ Species / Petal.Length, data = iris, weights = varIdent(form = ~ 1 | Species)) aa <- attributes(summary(f1)$modelStruct$varStruct)$weights f2 <-

Hello, I have found a problem with using the glm function with a gamma family. I have a vector of data, assumed to be generated by a gamma distribution. The parameters of this gamma distribution are estimated in two ways (i) using the glm() function, (ii) "by hand", using the optim() function. I find that the -2*likelihood at the maximum found by (i) is substantially larger than that

Hi All I was wondering how to get the same results with gls and lme. In my lme, the design matrix for the random effects is (should be) a identity matrix and therefore G should add up with R to produce the R matrix that gls would report (V=ZGZ'+R). Added complexity is that I have 3 levels, so I have R, G and say H (V=WHW'+ZGZ'+R). The lme is giving me the correct results, I am

Dear R users, I want to fit a model with within-subject correlations but with no random effects. So I could use gls to set correlation=corSymm(~1 | group). Here the problem I encountered is that I have 90 groups, and for the first, second and third 30 groups I want them to have three different unstructured correlation structures. Can I achieve that in gls() of the nlme package? Thank you!

I was reading the help but just did not get how to specify starting values for varIdent() of the lme() function, although I managed to do it for corSymm(). Do I specify the values just as they are printed out in an output, like c(1, 1.3473, 1.0195). Or do I need to take the residual and multiply it with these like c(0.2235, 0.2235*1.3473, 0.2235*1.0195) or any other form that I dont know of?

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

I am using the gls function of the nlme package to analyze data sets of soil respiration which have the following design: 3 complete blocks x 5 sampling dates (time from fertilization) x 3 fertilization levels. The fertilization dates are equal for all subjects (blocks) but not periodical (-46, 10, 24, 53, 123 days from the event). The code that I've been using is: fit.csnC<- gls(dno.C

Hello, I have used nlme to fit a model, the R syntax is like fmla0<-as.formula(paste("~",paste(colnames(ldata[,9:13]),collapse="+"),"-1")) > fmla1<-as.formula(paste("~",paste(colnames(ldata[,14:18]),collapse="+"),"-1")) >