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"help" We want to estimate the number of caribou in Jasper. We recently conducted an aerial survey and saw 70 uncollared caribou and 8 of 11 collared caribou. We want to estimate the number of caribou in this population with 95% confidence limits. Gary White uses the hypergeometric distribution and determines the population estimates using maximum likelihood and 95%CL as

Dear all, Using the quasibinomial and quasipoisson families results in no AIC being calculated. However, a quasi AIC has actually been defined by Lebreton et al (1992). In the (in my opinon, at least) very interesting book by Burnham and Anderson (1998,2002) this QAIC (and also QAICc) is covered. Maybe this is something that could be implemented in R. Take a look at page 23 in this pdf:

Hello R-list. I am a "long time listener - first time caller" who has been using R in research and graduate teaching for over 5 years. I hope that my question is simple but not too foolish. I've looked through the FAQ and searched the R site mail list with some close hits but no direct answers, so... I would like to estimate QAIC (and QAICc) for a glm fit using the

Dear R users, I would like to fit a glm with Poisson distribution and log link with a known dispersion parameter. I do not want to estimate the dispersion parameter. I know what it is, so I simply want to fix it at a constant for this and other models to follow. My simple, no covariate model is: Tall.glm<-glm(Seedling~1, family=poisson, offset(log(area)), data=tallPSME.df) I want to

Sorry about re-posting this, it never went out to the mailing list when I posted this to r-help forum on Nabble and was pending for a few days, now that I am subscribe to the mailing list I hope that this goes out: I've been a viewer of this forum for a while and it has helped out a lot, but this is my first time posting something. I am running glm models for richness and abundances. For

Hello there This is the first time I have used r-help message board so I hope I have got the right address. I am trying to check the residuals of a GLMM model(run using the package lme4). I have been able to check the residiuals of REMLs in lme4 using the following: m1<-lmer(vTotal~Week+fCollar+ (1|fCat), collars) res<-resid(m1) plot(res) qqnorm(res) library(MASS) par(mfrow=c(2,3))

Hi All, I am frustrated by mixed-effects model! I have searched the web for hours, and found lots on the nested anova, but nothing useful on my specific case, which is: a random factor (C) is nested within one of the fixed-factors (A), and a second fixed factor (B) is crossed with the first fixed factor: C/A A B A x B My question: I have a functioning model using the aov command (see

I have been working on the following code but keep getting an err message. My current thinking is that the problem is on the indexing but do not know how to fix it. Any help please? ungulate <- read.csv("Ungulate.csv",row.names=1) ungulate <- as.matrix(ungulate);colnames(ungulate)<-NULL;rownames(ungulate)<-NULL habitat <- read.csv("Ungulate_vegetation.csv")

Dear listers, I am trying to assess variance components for a nested, mixed-effects model. I think I got an answer that make sense from R, but I have a warning message and I wanted to check that what I am looking at is actually what I need: my data are organized as transects within stations, stations within habitats, habitats within lagoons. lagoons: random, habitats: fixed the question is:

Hi, there I first sent this e-mail a couple months ago, to no avail.Since I am not a member on your mailing list, so could you please cc: a response to me? I'll be sure to check the list today for replies. I am currently attempting to perform an ANOVA with both nested and normal factors. My problem is that R is treating my nested factors the exact same way as it would interaction terms.

Hello all, Can any of you R gurus help me out? I?m not all that great at stats to begin with, and I?m also learning the R ropes (former SAS user). Here?s what I need help with? I have a nested sample design and ran a nested anova, but I don?t know how to interpret the results habitat (four different types) is nested in site (three types), and site is nested in gear (two types)

Hi r-help forum, I have been collecting contact data (with proximity logger collars) between a few different species of animal. All animals wear the collars, and any contact between the animals should be detected and recorded by both collars. However, this isn't always the case and more contacts may be recorded on one collar of the two. This is fine, it depends on battery life and other

hi all, I often have a data frame like this example data.frame(sq=c(1,1,1,2,2,3,3,3,3),area=c(1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3),habitat=c("garden","garden","pond","field","garden","river","garden","field","field")) for each "sq" I have multiple "habitat"s each with an associated "area". I

Hi, I'm working on the codes below however every time I run them when they get to OpenBUGS I keep getting the error message: array index is greater than array upper bound for hab. Any help would be greatly appreciated, Suzie Codes: ungulate <- read.csv(file.choose ()) #ungulate ungulate <- as.matrix(ungulate);colnames(ungulate)<-NULL;rownames(ungulate)<-NULL

Dear list, I am trying to use MuMIn to compare all possible mixed models using the dredge function on binomial data but I am getting an error message that I cannot decode. This error only occurs when I use glmer. When I use an lmer analysis on a different response variable every works great. Example using a simplified glmer model global model: mod<- glmer(cbind(st$X2.REP.LIVE,

Dear fellow R users, Keywords: Kruskal-Wallis, Post-Hoc, pair-wise comparisons, Nemenyi-Damico-Wolfe-Dunn test, coin package, oneway_test I am using the "oneway_test" function in the R package "coin" and I am obtaining results which I cannot believe are accurate. I do not wish to waste anyone's time and so if the following problem is rather trivial, I apologize, however I

Dear all, I would like to add mixed effects in a multinomial model and I am trying to use MCMCglmm for that. The main problem I face: my data set consits of a trapping data set, where the observation at eah trap (1 or 0 for each species) have been aggregated per traplines. Therefore we have a proportion of presence/absence for each species per trapline. ex: ID_line mesh habitat Apsy Mygl

Hi all, I have some concerns regarding the rasterize option in R and I would like to know if the fun=max in rasterize in R provides similar results to the one achieved by using "Polygon to Raster using maximum-combined-area" in ArcGIS? I'm trying to rasterize a habitat layer to a raster of 10m spatial resolution using the function 'max' (e.g. r <- rasterize(ht, r,

Hi! I am trying to know which habitat variables most affect bird counts in a radius of 100m. I obtained bird counts in 2751 spatial points, and measured percentage of 21 habitat variables in these points. I applied a mixed model using the "lmer" function to these data, but I do not know how to select the best model using AIC here. Is there a way to do this automatically with R?

Hi all, This is partly a statistical question as well as a question about R, but I am stumped! I have count data from various sites across years. (Not all of the sites in the study appear in all years). Each site has its own habitat score "habitat" that remains constant across all years. I want to know if counts declined faster on sites with high "habitat" scores. I can