[R] Help_Unable to run glmer

2009-03-15 Thread Emma Stone
Can anyone help with this  - I have been running glmer code for linear
mixed models on my works pc, and am now working on my laptop (which is
vista) and when I load the lme4 package i get the message below and I
cannot run any models  - any one have any ideas?

Emma

trying URL
'http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.8/Matrix_0.999375-21.zip'
Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = wb, ...) :
  cannot open URL
'http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.8/Matrix_0.999375-21.zip'
In addition: Warning message:
In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = wb, ...) :
  cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
Warning in download.packages(p0, destdir = tmpd, available = available,  :
  download of package 'Matrix' failed
trying URL
'http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.8/lme4_0.999375-28.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 978644 bytes (955 Kb)
opened URL
downloaded 955 Kb

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Re: [R] Mixed models fixed effects

2009-03-13 Thread Emma Stone
0.00 1447.68
37   140.00 1405.89
38   430.00  393.62
39   410.00  461.28
40   410.00  290.35
41   14 1275.61 5695.19
42   12   60.61 3502.27
43   11  129.36 2962.34
44   13   19.95 3786.72
45   110.00 1303.16
46   130.00 1044.52
47   120.00  461.22
48   140.00  363.79


--On 13 March 2009 11:01 +0100 ONKELINX, Thierry 
thierry.onkel...@inbo.be wrote:



Dear Emma,

Have you tried a simpler model? False convergence can be due to an
overcomplex model. Can you give a brief outline of your data? E.g. how
many sites, how many data per site, ... Cross tabulations of all pairs
of factor variables are usefull too.

HTH,

Thierry




ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature
and Forest
Cel biometrie, methodologie en kwaliteitszorg / Section biometrics,
methodology and quality assurance
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~ Roger Brinner

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ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of
data.
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-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Emma Stone [mailto:emma.st...@bristol.ac.uk]
Verzonden: vrijdag 13 maart 2009 10:50
Aan: ONKELINX, Thierry; Emma Stone; r-help@r-project.org
Onderwerp: RE: [R] Mixed models fixed effects

Hi Thierry,

That's great thanks!

I have done as you have said but I keep getting a warning message here
is
my code:

G1Hvol-glmer(passes~hvolume+style+habitat(1|Site),family = poisson)

And this is the message i get:
Warning message:
In mer_finalize(ans) : false convergence (8)

any ideas??

Emma


--On 11 March 2009 15:45 +0100 ONKELINX, Thierry
thierry.onkel...@inbo.be wrote:


Hi Emma,

Continuous predictors are no problem at all. You can mix both

continuous

and categorial predictors if needed. I suppose your response are

counts

(the number of bats that passes)? In that case a generalised linear
mixed model is more appropriate. With the lme4 package you could try
something like this:

library(lme4)
Model - glmer(BatPasses ~ Width + Height + (1|Site), family =

poisson)


HTH,

Thierry

PS There is a mailing list dedicated to mixed models:

R-Sig-MixedModels






ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature
and Forest
Cel biometrie, methodologie en kwaliteitszorg / Section biometrics,
methodology and quality assurance
Gaverstraat 4
9500 Geraardsbergen
Belgium
tel. + 32 54/436 185
thierry.onkel...@inbo.be
www.inbo.be

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no

more

than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able

to

say what the experiment died of.
~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher

The plural of anecdote is not data.
~ Roger Brinner

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does

not

ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of
data.
~ John Tukey

-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: r-help-boun...@r-project.org

[mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org]

Namens Emma Stone
Verzonden: woensdag 11 maart 2009 15:29
Aan: r-help@r-project.org
Onderwerp: Re: [R] Mixed models fixed effects

Dear All,

This may sound like a dumb question but I am trying to use a mixed

model

to
determine the predictors of bat activity along hedges within 8 sites.

So

my
response is continuous (bat passes) my predictors fixed effects are
continuous (height metres), width (metres) etc and the random effect

is

site  - can you tell me if the fixed effects can be continuous as all
the
examples I have read show them as categorical, but this is not covered
in
any documents I can find.

Help!

Emma

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Postgraduate Researcher
Bat Ecology

Re: [R] Mixed models fixed effects

2009-03-13 Thread Emma Stone

Hi Thierry,

Thanks again! You are a great help!!

I have taken habitat out, and then run it with style but still the same 
problem exists, so I have taken both style and habitat out. The problem 
here is it leaves me with only 3 parameters and because they are all 
correlated I cant use them in the same models, so I just have 3 single 
models (one for each parameter) - which isnt ideal.


G3Pgaps-glmer(passes~pgaps+(1|Site),family=poisson)
C1Hvol-glmer(passes~hvolume+(1|Site))
C2OHArea-glmer(passes~oharea+(1|Site))

Also, when I run the C1 and C2 model, it wont work if I state family 
poisson.


Is there anyway I can get rid of the correlations in the parameters so that 
I can use them in the same model? Or is there another option to boost n, ie 
bootsrapping??


Thanks again

Emma

--On 13 March 2009 11:21 +0100 ONKELINX, Thierry 
thierry.onkel...@inbo.be wrote:



poisson




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Emma Stone
Postgraduate Researcher
Bat Ecology and Bioacoustics Lab
 Mammal Research Unit
School of Biological Sciences,
University of Bristol, Woodland Road,
Bristol, BS8 1UG
Email: emma.st...@bristol.ac.uk

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Re: [R] Mixed models fixed effects

2009-03-11 Thread Emma Stone

Dear All,

This may sound like a dumb question but I am trying to use a mixed model to 
determine the predictors of bat activity along hedges within 8 sites. So my 
response is continuous (bat passes) my predictors fixed effects are 
continuous (height metres), width (metres) etc and the random effect is 
site  - can you tell me if the fixed effects can be continuous as all the 
examples I have read show them as categorical, but this is not covered in 
any documents I can find.


Help!

Emma

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