similar to: negative binomial lmer

Hello all, I would like to fit a mixed effects model, but my response is of the negative binomial (or overdispersed poisson) family. The only (?) package that looks like it can do this is glmm.ADMB (but it cannot run on Mac OS X - please correct me if I am wrong!) [1] I think that glmmML {glmmML}, lmer {Matrix}, and glmmPQL {MASS} do not provide this "family" (i.e. nbinom, or

Dear All, I am analysing a dataset on levels of herbivory in seedlings in an experimental setup in a rainforest. I have seven classes/categories of seedling damage/herbivory that I want to analyse, modelling each separately. There are twenty maternal trees, with eight groups of seedlings around each. Each tree has a TreeID, which I use as the random effect (blocking factor). There are two

Dear R users, I'm performing some GLMMs analysis with a negative binomial link. I already performed such analysis some months ago with the lmer() function but when I tried it today I encountered this problem: Erreur dans famType(glmFit$family) : unknown GLM family: 'Negative Binomial' Does anyone know if the negative binomial family has been removed from this function? I really

Dear R-users, A recent post (Feb 16) to R-help inquired about fitting a glmm with a negative binomial distribution. Professor Ripley responded that this was a difficult problem with the simpler Poisson model already being a difficult case: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2005-February/064708.html Since we are developing software for fitting general nonlinear random effects models we

Seems the message below and the thread have reveived no attention/answer. The output presented is quite tricky. Looks like if lmer (lme4 0.9975-10) has accepted a negative binomial link with reasonable estimates, although it was not designed for... What can one think about result validity ? Best Patrick Message: 34 Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:51:24 -0700 (PDT) From: "E. Robardet"

Goal: use GEE or GLMM to analyze repeated measures data in R GEE problem: can?t find a way to do GEE with negative binomial family in R GLMM problem: not sure if I?m specifying random effect correctly Study question: Does the interaction of director and recipient group affect rates of a behavior? Data: Animals (n = 38) in one of 3 groups (life stages): B or C. Some individuals (~5)

Hi, I'm new to R and GLMMs, and I've been unable to find the answers to my questions by trawling through the R help archives. I'm hoping someone here can help me. I'm running an analysis on Seedling survival (count data=Poisson distribution) on restoration sites, and my main interest is in determining whether the Nutrients (N) and water absorbing polymer Gel (G) additions to the

Greetings R Users! I have a data set of count responses for which I have made repeated observations on the experimental units (stream reaches) over two air photo dates, hence the mixed effect. I have been using Dr. Jim Lindsey's GLMM function found in his "repeated" measures package with the "poisson" family. My problem though is that I don't think the poisson

Dear all, I want to build a model in R based on animal collection data, that look like the following Nr Village District Site Survey Species Count 1 AX A F Dry B 0 2 AY A V Wet A 5 3 BX B F Wet B 1 4 BY B V Dry B 0 Each data point shows one collection unit in a certain Village, District, Site, and Survey for a certain Species. 'Count' is the number of animals collected in that

Hi I am running an lmer which works fine with family=poisson mixed.model<-lmer(nobees~spray+dist+flwabund+flwdiv+round+(1|field),family="poisson",method="ML",na.action=na.omit) But it is overdispersed. I tried using family=quasipoisson but get no P values. This didnt worry me too much as i think my data is closer to negative binomial but i cant find any examples of

Here is a summary of responses to my original email (see my query at the bottom). Thank you to Achim Zeileis , Anders Nielsen, Pierre Kleiber and Dave Fournier who all helped out with advice. I hope that their responses will help some of you too. ***************************************** Check out glm.nb() from package MASS fits negative binomial GLMs.

Dear all, I'm working with count data following over-dispersed poisson distribution and have to work with mixed-models on them (like proc GENMOD on SAS sys.). I'm still not to sure about what function to use. It seems to me that a glmmPQL will do the job I want, but I'll be glad if people who worked on this type of data can share what they learned. Thanks for your time. simon

Three related questions on LMEs and GLMMs in R: (1) Is there a way to fix the dispersion parameter (at 1) in either glmmPQL (MASS) or GLMM (lme4)? Note: lme does not let you fix any variances in advance (presumably because it wants to "profile out" an overall sigma^2 parameter) and glmmPQL repeatedly calls lme, so I couldn't see how glmmPQL would be able to fix the dispersion

Dear R users, I’m performing some GLMMs analysis with a negative binomial link. I already performed such analysis some months ago with the lmer() function but when I tried it today I encountered this problem: *Erreur dans famType(glmFit$family) : unknown GLM family: ‘Negative Binomial’* Does anyone know if the negative binomial family has been removed from this function? I really appreciate any

I have a few questions relating to overdispersion in a sex ratio data set that I am working with (note that I already have an analysis with GLMMs for fixed effects, this is just to estimate dispersion). The response variable is binomial because nestlings can only be male or female. I have samples of 1-5 nestlings from each nest (individuals within a nest are not independent, so the response

My data have heterogeneity of variance (in a categorical variable), do I need to specify a variance structure accounting for this in my model or do GLMMs by their nature account for such heterogeneity (as a result of using deviances rather than variances)? And if I do need to do this, how do I do it (e.g. using something like the VarIdent function in nlme) and in what package? This is my first

Hi, I have three questions concerning GLMMs. First, I ' m looking for a measure for the significance of the random variable in a glmm. I'm fitting a glmm (lmer) to telemetry-locations of 12 wildcat-individuals against random locations (binomial response). The individual is the random variable. Now I want to know, if the individual ("TIER") has a significant effect on the model

> From: rossini@blindglobe.net (A.J. Rossini) > Date: 01 Nov 2000 07:47:21 -0800 [...] > Thanks for the pointer to stack/unstack -- now, having been reminded, > I think I'd seen these float through on the list (still doesn't solve > the missing modeling routines (parametric GLMMs, some of the > econometrics stuff -- does R _easily_ do 3SLS?), but they'll appear >

I would like to try a simple parametric bootstrap, but unfortunately (stupidly?) my models are "overdispersed" gams & glms. I'm hoping for a function that generates overdispersed poisson or negative binomial data with a given mean, scale (& shape parameter). The loose definition I'm using is overdispersed poisson produces integer values with variance=const*mean &

Dear R users, I've been trying to find an R package which does the PL estimation of spatial GLMMs especially with the negative binomial model. so it would be something similar to the "proc GLIMMIX" with the PL method in SAS. I've looked up some possible packages related to GLMMs, but it doesn't seem to be anyone using the PL estimation. Thanks for your help! Fei He UCR