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Hello: Let me rephrase my question to attract interest in the problem I'm having. When I appply anova() to two equations estimated using glmmPQL, I get a complaint, > anova(fm1, fm2) Error in anova.lme(fm1, fm2) : Objects must inherit from classes "gls", "gnls" "lm","lmList", "lme","nlme","nlsList", or "nls"

Hello: Will someone PLEASE help me with this problem. This is the third time I've posted it. When I appply anova() to two equations estimated using glmmPQL, I get a complaint, > anova(fm1, fm2) Error in anova.lme(fm1, fm2) : Objects must inherit from classes "gls", "gnls" "lm","lmList", "lme","nlme","nlsList", or

Doug, I have been attempting to learn a little bit about nlme without too much documentation except the online help. The Latex file in the nlme directory looks interesting but uses packages that I do not have so that I have not been able to read it. I have run the example from gnls to compare it with the results I get from my libraries (code below - I have not included output as it is rather

Dear all, How can I extract the total and residual d.f. from a gnls object? I have tried str(summary(gnls.model)) and str(gnls.model) as well as gnls(), but couldn?t find the entry in the resulting lists. Many thanks! Best wishes Christoph -- Dr. rer.nat. Christoph Scherber University of Goettingen DNPW, Agroecology Waldweg 26 D-37073 Goettingen Germany phone +49 (0)551 39 8807 fax +49

Dear all, I am trying to gain some experience with the function gnls from the nlme package. I tried to model the Theophyline data by trying to model the presumed dependency of the clearance on the body weight. This is my function call of gnls: gnls(conc~SSfol(Dose,Time,lKe,lKa,lCl),data=Theoph, params=list(lKe~1,lKa~1,lCl~Wt),start=c(-2.4,0.46,-3.22,0.01)) That's been the result: Error

>>>>> "VW" == Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT) <Wolfgang.Viechtbauer at STAT.unimaas.nl> >>>>> on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:00:19 +0200 writes: VW> Hi all, I'm trying to fit a marginal (longitudinal) VW> model with an exponential serial correlation function to VW> the Orange tree data set. However, R crashes frequently VW>

Hi I use gnls to fit non linear models of the form y = alpha * x**beta (alpha and beta being linear functions of a 2nd regressor z i.e. alpha=a1+a2*z and beta=b1+b2*z) with variance function varPower(fitted(.)) which sounds correct for the data set I use. My purpose is to use the fitted models for predictions with other sets of regressors x, z than those used in fitting. I therefore need to

Hi, I guess this is a final plea, and maybe this should go to R-help but here goes. I am writing a set of functions for calibration and prediction, and to calculate standard errors and intervals I need the variance function to be evaluated at new prediction points. So for instance fit<-gnls(Y~SSlogis(foo,Asym,xmid,scal),weights=varPower())

Dear All -- I am trying to use within a little table producing code an anova comparison of two gls fitted objects, contained in a list of such object, obtained using nlme function gls. The anova procedure fails to locate the second of the objects. The following code, borrowed from the help page of anova.gls, exemplifies: --------------- start example code --------------- library(nlme) ##

Hello list: How to extract the value of "Rho" from a gnls() object. I am using gnls() function similar to res <- gnls(y~SSmicmen(),correlation=corCompSymm(form~1|b),data=dat) Thanks in advance, Mahbub. -- Mahbub Latif School of Mathematical Sciences Queen Mary, University of London United Kingdom [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

This works fine: fit42<-nls(Vfs~SSlogis(Months,Asym.Int+Asym.Group*Groupdum,xmid,scal), data=df, start=c(Asym.Int=22,Asym.Group=5,xmid=2,scal=6), na.action=na.omit) But this, identical except using gnls, doesn't converge: fit43<-gnls(Vfs~SSlogis(Months,Asym.Int+Asym.Group*Groupdum,xmid,scal), data=df, start=c(Asym.Int=22,Asym.Group=5,xmid=2,scal=6), na.action=na.omit) Error in gnls(Vfs

Hi all, I'm working with a dataset from 10 treatments, each treatment with 30 subjects, each subject measured 5 times. The plot of the dataset suggests that a 3-parameter logistic could be a reasonable function to describe the data. When I try to fit the model using gnls I got the message 'Step halving factor reduced below minimum in NLS step'. I´m using as the initial values of the

Back on January 16, a message on R-help from Ravi Varadhan described a problem with gnls using weights=varPower(). The problem was that the fit failed with error Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : Object "." not found I can reliably get this error in version 2.0.1-patched 2004-12-09 on Windows XP and 2.0.1-Patched 2005-01-26 on Linux. The key feature of that example is that the

I have been using the nls function to fit some simple non-linear regression models for properties of graphite bricks to historical datasets. I have then been using these fits to obtain mean predictions for the properties of the bricks a short time into the future. I have also been calculating approximate prediction intervals. The information I have suggests that the assumption of a normal

Dear R-Help, I'm trying to fit a model of the following form using gnls. I've fitted it using nlsList with the following syntax: nlsList(Y~log(exp(a0-a1*X)+exp(b0-b1*X))|K,start=list (a0=6,a1=0.2,b0=4.5,b1=0.001),data=data.frame(Y=y,X=X,K=k))) which works just fine: <snip> Coefficients: a0 a1 b0 b1 1 5.459381 0.5006811 5.137458 -0.0040548687

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

Hi, I'm having some problems regarding the packages lme4 and nlme, more specifically in the denominator degrees of freedom. I used data Orthodont for the two packages. The commands used are below. require(nlme) data(Orthodont) fm1<-lme(distance~age+ Sex, data=Orthodont,random=~1|Subject, method="REML") anova(fm1) numDF DenDF F-value p-value (Intercept) 1

Dear R users; I was trying to fit a nonlinear model using gnls (nlme version 3.1-80, R 2.5.0, WinXP) and I got the following error and warning message: Error in gnls(ht ~ a1 * hd * (1 - a2 * exp(-a3 * (dbh/dq2))), data = hdat, : Step halving factor reduced below minimum in NLS step In addition: Warning message: $ operator is deprecated for atomic vectors, returning NULL in:

Dear R-list members, Some months ago I wrote a message on the usage of gnls (nlme library) and here I come again. Let me give an example: I have a 10 year length-at-age data set of 10 fishes (see growth.dat at the end of this message) and I want to fit a von Bertalanffy growth model, Li= Linf*(1-exp(-k*(ti-t0))) where Li = length at age i, Linf= asymptotic length, k= curvature parameter, ti=

Hello: I am really stuck on this problem. Why do I get an error message with anova() when I compare these two equations? Hope someone can help. ANDREW ____________________________ > fm1 <- glmmPQL(choice ~ day + stereotypy, + random = ~ 1 | bear, data = learning, family = binomial) > fm2 <- glmmPQL(choice ~ day + envir + stereotypy, + random = ~ 1 |