similar to: bug in either glmmPQL or lme/lmer

Dear R users, I'm attempting to fit a GLM with random effects using the tweedie family for the error structure. I'm getting the error: iteration 1 Error in logLik.reStruct(object, conLin) : NA/NaN/Inf in foreign function call (arg 3) I'm running V2.1.0 I notice from searching the lists that the same error was reported in May 2004 by Spencer Graves, but no-one was able to

I'm using glmmPQL, and I still have a few problems with it. In addition to the issue reported earlier, I'm getting the following error and I was wondering if there's something I can do about it. Error in logLik.reStruct(object, conLin) : Na/NaN/Inf in foreign function call (arg 3) ... Warnings: 1: Singular precistion matrix in level -1, block 4 (...) 4: "" The

Can anyone shed any light on this? > doubt.demographic.pql<-glmmPQL(random = ~ 1 | groupid/participantid, + fixed = r.info.doubt ~ + realage + minority + female + education + income + scenario, + data = fgdata.df[coded.resource,], + na.action=na.omit, +

Dear listers, First let me appologize if the same mail arrives multiple times. Recently I had some probelms sending my e-mails to the list. I encountered a problem when running glmmPQL procuedure doing multilevel modeling with a dichotomous outcome. Those are the two error messages I usually get: Error in logLik.reStruct(object, conLin) : NA/NaN/Inf in foreign function call (arg 3)

Dear all, I try to fit a glmmPQL on a huge data with 384189 individuals id=1:384189: working in 1520 establishments est:1:1516. The minimum number of individuals in every establishment is 30. This works for a subsample excluding establishemnet cells smaller than 100, but fail when we include smaller cells: R> summary(glmmPQL(count ~ + I( age-ave(age,est) )* ave(age,est) + + I(

I'm getting a strange error from glmmPQL. Consider the following sample code: set.seed(8) N. <- 1000 z <- rnorm(N.) pr.good <- exp(-1e-4*exp(2+2*z)) quantile(pr.good) DF. <- data.frame(yield=rbinom(N., N., pr.good)/N., Offset=rep(-10, N.), nest=1:N.) fit <- glmmPQL(fixed=1-yield~offset(Offset), random=~1|nest, family=binomial(link="cloglog"),

I've come into some code that produces different results under R 2.1.1 and R 2.2.1. I'm really unfamiliar with the libraries in question (MASS and nlme), so I don't know if this is a bug in my code, or a regression in R. If it's a bug on my end, I'd appreciate any advice on potential causes and relevant documentation. The code:

Hope one of you could help with the following question/problem: We would like to explain the spatial distribution of juvenile fish. We have 2135 records, from 75 vessels (code_tripnr) and 7 to 39 observations for each vessel, hence the random effect for code_tripnr. The offset (‘offsetter’) accounts for the haul duration and sub sampling factor. There are no extreme outliers in lat/lon. The model

Dear R-ers, I am having trouble understanding why I am getting an error using glmmPQL (library MASS). I am getting the following error: iteration 1 Error in MEEM(object, conLin, control$niterEM) : Singularity in backsolve at level 0, block 1 The long story: I have data from an experiment on pairwise comparisons between 3 treatments (a, b, c). So a typical run of an experiment

Dear all, I'm using R function "glmmPQL" in "MASS" package for generalized linear mixed model considering the temporal correlations in random effect. There are 1825 observations in my data, in which the random effect is called "Date", and there are five levels in "Date", each repeats 365 times. When I tried

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

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

Hello, I am trying to design new variance structures by using fixed effects variables in combination with the VarPower function. That is, I would like to create and evaluate my own variance function in the data frame and then incorporate it into the model using varPower, with value=.5. As a start, I am trying to recreate the function of VarConstPower by introducing two new variables in the

>On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Bernd Weiss wrote: > >> I am trying to replicate some multilevel models with binary outcomes >> using R's "lmer" and "glmmPQL" and Stata's gllmm, respectively. > >That's not going to happen as they are not using the same criteria. the glmmPQL and lmer both use the PQL method to do it ,so can we get the same result by

Hi R-users,   I intend to apply a mixed model on a set of longitudinal data, with a negative binomial distributed dependent variable, and after following the discussions on R help list I saw that more experienced people recommended using lmer (from lme4 pack), glmmPQL (from MASS) or glmm.admb (from glmmADMB pack)     My first problem: yesterday this syntax was ok, now I get this weird message (I

Dear all, I am trying to replicate some multilevel models with binary outcomes using R's "lmer" and "glmmPQL" and Stata's gllmm, respectively. The data can be found at <http://www.uni-koeln.de/~ahf34/xerop.dta>. The relevant Stata output can be found at <http://www.uni- koeln.de/~ahf34/stataoutput.txt>. First, you will find the unconditional model,

R, I want to get means and confidence limits on the original scale for the treatment effect after running a mixed model. The data are: response<-c(16,4,5,8,41,45,10,15,11,3,1,64,41,23,18,16,10,22,2,3)

Hello, I'm running a simulation study of a multilevel model with binary response using the binomial probit link. It is a random intercept and random slope model. GLMMPQL and lmer fail to converge on a *significant* portion of the *generated* datasets, while MlWin gives reasonable estimates on those datasets. This is unacceptable. Does anyone has similar experiences? Regards, Roel de

Dear R Community, I?m relatively new in the field of R and I hope someone of you can help me to solve my nerv-racking problem. For my Master thesis I collected some behavioral data of fish using acoustic telemetry. The aim of the study is to compare two different groups of fish (coded as 0 and 1 which should be the dependent variable) based on their swimming activity, habitat choice, etc.

I have been looking into both of these approaches to conducting a GLMM, and want to make sure I understand model specification in each. In particular - after looking at Bates' Rnews article and searching through the help archives, I am unclear on the specification of nested factors in lmer. Do the following statements specify the same mode within each approach? m1 = glmmPQL(RICH ~ ZONE,