similar to: Log Cholesky parametrization in lme

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)+

Dear R Users I have difficulties accessing the variance components for an lme fit when the variance covariance matrix of the random effects is not positive definite. Can anyone inform me on how to get by this ? Thanks in advance Pryseley --------------------------------- [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R - Users I have some problems fitting a linear mixed effects model using the lme function (nlme library). A sample data is as shown at the bottom of this mail. I fit my linear mixed model using the following R code: bmr <-lme (outcome~ -1 + as.factor(endpoint)+ as.factor(endpoint):trt, data=datt, random=~-1 + as.factor(endpoint) + as.factor(endpoint):trt|as.factor(Trial),

Good day R-Users, I have a problem accessing some values in the output from the summary of an lme fit. The structure of my data is as shown below (I have attached a copy of the full data). id trials endp Z.sas ST 1 1 -1 -1 42.42884 1 1 1 -1 48.12007 2 1 -1 -1 43.42878 2 1 1 -1

Dear R-Users, Is it possible to get the covariance matrix from an lme model that did not converge ? I am doing a simulation which entails fitting linear mixed models, using a "for loop". Within each loop, i generate a new data set and analyze it using a mixed model. The loop stops When the "lme function" does not converge for a simulated dataset. I want to

Hello R-users I am new to R and trying to write some functions. I have problems writing functions that takes a data set as an arguement and uses variables in the data. I illustrate my problem with a small example below: sample data #------------------ visual24<-rnorm(30,3,5) visual52<-rt(30,7) dats<- data.frame(cbind(visual24,visual52)) remove(visual24, visual52)

Dear R-Users I have a problem accessing some values in the output from the summary of an lme fit. I fit the model below: ggg <- lme (ST~ -1 + as.factor(endp):Z.sas + as.factor(endp), data=dat4a, random=~-1 + as.factor(endp) + as.factor(endp):Z.sas|as.factor(trials), correlation = corSymm(form=~1|as.factor(trials)/as.factor(id)), weights=varIdent(form=~1|endp)) hh

Hello R-users Is it possible to fit a three level linear mixed effect model in R? If anyone has an idea or sample code, i will appreciate it very much if i can receive it. I am reading the book by Pinheiro and Bates but have not come across that yet! Kind regards Pryseley --------------------------------- [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R-users Can anyone inform me of a library or more specifically functions that can maximise (or calculate) a Pairwsie likelihood from a data. Better still, i would like to know if there is a function (library) that fits regression models based on pairwise likelihoods. Thanks Pryseley --------------------------------- [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R users, Can someone inform me about a library/function in R that fits a Plackett-Dale model ? Thanks in advance Pryseley --------------------------------- [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi Folks, I'm trying to understand the model specification formalities for 'lme', and the documentation is leaving me a bit confused. Specifically, using the example dataset 'Orthodont' in the 'nlme' package, first I use the invocation given in the example shown by "?lme": > fm1 <- lme(distance ~ age, data = Orthodont) # random is ~ age Despite the

Dear R-users I have problems using lme The model i want to fit can be viewed as a two-level bivariate model Two-level bivariate: bivariate (S coded as -1,T coded as 1) endpoint within trial OR It can equivalently be considered as a three-level model.Three-level: endpoint within patient, patient within trial. My code tries to model the levels through a RANDOM statement and a

Dear R-users I intend to create a function which calls some smaller other functions in return. Some of these smaller functions all call some functions. I do not know a good way to do this. I tried using the source() function to include the smaller functions within the main functions before they are called. This does not work, or maybe i am not doing the right thing. For example: the

Hi everyone: I try to use r to do the Cholesky Decomposition,which is A=LDL',so far I only found how to decomposite A in to LL' by using chol(A),the function Cholesky(A) doesnt work,any one know other command to decomposte A in to LDL' My r code is: library(Matrix) A=matrix(c(1,1,1,1,5,5,1,5,14),nrow=3) > chol(A) [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 1 1 1 [2,] 0 2 2

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?

Dear R users, I have used the following function (in blue) aiming to find the linear regression between MOE and XLA and nesting my data by Species. I have obtained the following results (in green). model4<-lme(MOE~XLA, random = ~ XLA|Species, method="ML")summary(model4) Linear mixed-effects model fit by maximum likelihood Data: NULL         AIC     BIC   logLik  -1.040187 8.78533

Dear R-devel members, I am looking for a fast Cholesky update/downdate. The matrix A being symmetric positive definite (n, n) and factorized as A = L %*% t(L), the goal is to factor the new matrix A +- C %*% t(C) where C is (n, r). For instance, C is 1-column when adding/removing an observation in a linear regression. Of special interest is the case where A is sparse. Looking at the

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I have been playing around with sparse matrices in the Matrix package, in particularly with the Cholesky factorization of matrices of class dsCMatrix. And BTW, what a fantastic package. My problem is that I have to carry out repeated Cholesky factorization of a spares symmetric matrices, say Q_1, Q_2, ...,Q_n, where the Q's have the same non-zero pattern. I know in this case one does

Dear fellow R Users: I am doing a Cholesky decomposition on a correlation matrix and get error message the matrix is not semi-definite. Does anyone know: 1- a work around to this issue? 2- Is there any approach to try and figure out what vector might be co-linear with another in thr Matrix? 3- any way to perturb the data to work around this? Thanks for any suggestions.