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R2.2 for WinXP, Splus 6.2.1 for HP 9000 Series, HP-UX 11.0. I am trying to get a handle on why the same lme( ) code gives such different answers. My output makes me wonder if the fact that the UNIX box is 64 bits is the reason. The estimated random effects are identical, but the fixed effects are very different. Here is my R code and output, with some columns and rows deleted for space

Hi. I was wondering if anyone might have some suggestions about how I can overcome a problem of "iteration limit reached without convergence" when fitting a mixed effects model. In this study: Outcome is a measure of heart action Age is continuous (in weeks) Gender is Male or Female (0 or 1) Genotype is Wild type or knockout (0 or 1) Animal is the Animal ID as a factor

Dear R-help list readers, I am fitting mixed models with the lme function of the nlme package. If I get convergence depends on how the method (ML/REM) and which (and how much) parameters will depend randomly on the cluster-variable. How get the bist fit without convergence? I set the parameters msVerbose and returnObject to TRUE: lmeControl(maxIter=50000, msMaxIter=200, tolerance=1e-4,

Dear all I want to compute Monte Carlo p-values in lmer-models based on sampled data sets. To speed up calculations, I've tried to use internal functions from the Matrix package (as suggested ealier on the list by Doug Bates). So I did: fm2 <- lmer(resistance ~ ET + position + (1|Grp), Semiconductor,method='ML') simdata<-simulate(fm2,nsim=1) ynew <- simdata[,1] mer

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

Hi dear R-listers, I'm trying to fit a 3-level model using lme in R. My sample size is about 2965 and 3 factors: year (5 levels), ssize (4 levels), condition (2 levels). When I issue the following command: > lme(var~year*ssize*condition,random=~ssize+condition|subject,data=smp,method ="ML") I got the following error: Error in logLik.lmeStructInt(lmeSt, lmePars) :

Hello! One note/question hier about specification of control-parameters in the lme(...,control=list(...)) function call: i tried to specify tne number of iteration needed via lme(....,control=list(maxIter=..., niterEM=...,msVerbose=TRUE)) but every time i change the defualt values maxIter (e.g. maxIter=1, niterEM=0) on ones specified by me, the call returns all the iterations needed until

Dear R users, I am using nlme to fit a pharmacokinetic model. The base model is parameterized in terms of CL, V1, V2 and Q. basemodel<-nlme(Conc ~TwoCompModel(CL,Q,V1,V2,Time,ID), data = data2, fixed=list(CL+Q+V1+V2~1), random = pdDiag(CL+V1+V2~1), start=c(CL=log(20),Q=log(252),V1=log(24.9),V2=log(120)), control=list(returnObject=TRUE,msVerbose=TRUE, msMaxIter=20,pnlsMaxIter=20,pnlsTol=1),

When I run gnls I get the error: Error in nls(y ~ cbind(1, 1/(1 + exp((xmid - x)/exp(lscal)))), data = xy, : step factor 0.000488281 reduced below 'minFactor' of 0.000976563 My first thought was to decrease minFactor but gnlsControl does not contain minFactor nor nlsMinFactor (see below). It does however contain nlsMaxIter and nlsTol which I assume are the analogs of

On starting an R session, I get the messages: Fatal errir: unable to restore save data in .RData Error in fun(...): couldn't find function "assignInNamespace" Error: .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'Matrix' The only object in my .RData is last.warning, thus: > last.warning $"optim or nlminb returned message false convergence (8)"

Last week (Wed 9/10/2003, "regression questions") I posted a question regarding the use of gnls( ) and its dissimilarity to the syntax that nls( ) will accept. No one replied, so I partly answered my own question by constructing indicator variables for use in gnls( ). The code I used to construct the indicators is at the end of this email. I do have a nagging, unanswered

Dear R-users, I did some more research and I'm still not sure how to set up an ANCOVA with nestedness. Specifically I'm not sure how to express chicks nested within boxes. I will be getting Pinheiro & Bates (Mixed Effects Models in S and S-Plus) but it will not arrive for another two weeks from our interlibrary loan. The goal is to determine if there are urbanization (purban)

Dear all, I am trying to optimize a logistic function using optim, inside the following functions: #Estimating a and b from thetas and outcomes by ML IRT.estimate.abFromThetaX <- function(t, X, inits, lw=c(-Inf,-Inf), up=rep(Inf,2)){ optRes <- optim(inits, method="L-BFGS-B", fn=IRT.llZetaLambdaCorrNan, gr=IRT.gradZL, lower=lw, upper=up, t=t, X=X)

Dear all, I'm building binomial mixed-model using lme4 package. I'm able to obtain outputs properly except when I include two particular variables: date (from 23 to 34; 1 being to first sampling day) and Latitude (UTM/100 000, from 55.42 to 56.53). No "NA" is any of those variables. In those cases, I get the warning message: "nlminb failed to converge" I tried to

I have a question about the lme function in R. My question is: After I got the object from function lme, why the numIter value of the object is always NULL? Following is my code: jjww<-lme(y~x*zz,data=simul,random=~x|group, control=lmeControl(returnObject=TRUE)) attributes(jjww) jjww$numIter the first 20 observation of data simul are: > simul y

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

Hi, I'm fitting mixed effects models using the lme function of the nlme package. This involves using the various associated plot functions. However, when I attempt to fit a number of models using an loop, whilst the models work, the plot functions fail. As a trivial example, the following works: library(nlme) graphics.off() x<-c(1:10) y<-c(1:4,7:12)

Hi all, I would like to fit a gamm model of the form: Y~X+X*f(z) Where f is the smooth function and With random effects on X and on the intercept. So, I try to write it like this: gam.lme<- gamm(Y~ s(z, by=X) +X, random=list(groups=pdDiag(~1+X)) ) but I get the error message : Error in MEestimate(lmeSt, grps) : Singularity in backsolve at level 0, block 1

Hi - I am doing some monte carlo simulations comparing bayesian (using Plummer's jags) and maximum likelihood (using lmer from package lme4 by Bates et al). I would like to know if there is a way I can flag nonconvergence and exceptions. Currently the simulations just stop and the output reads things like: Error in optim(.Call("lmer_coef", x, 2, PACKAGE = "Matrix"), fn,

I am using rw0641. In my continuing quest to understand repeated measures analysis, I again return to lme. I exported the Potthoff and Roy data Orthodont.dat from S-PLUS 4.5 to avoid capture errors and ran the examples in the R help. I imported the data.frame with data <- read.table("Orthodont.dat",header=T) attach(data) and created the objects Orthodont.fit1 <-