Re: [R] Problem specifying Gamma distribution in lme4/glmer

2010-03-21 Thread David Winsemius
On Mar 21, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Ben Bolker wrote: Dieter Menne menne-biomed.de> writes: Ben Bolker wrote: 3. zero-inflated data may not be particularly well-represented by a Gamma distribution: if you actually have a significant number of exactly-zero values, you may want to analyze your dat

Re: [R] Problem specifying Gamma distribution in lme4/glmer

2010-03-21 Thread David Winsemius
On Mar 21, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Ben Bolker wrote: Dieter Menne menne-biomed.de> writes: Ben Bolker wrote: 3. zero-inflated data may not be particularly well-represented by a Gamma distribution: if you actually have a significant number of exactly-zero values, you may want to analyze your dat

Re: [R] Problem specifying Gamma distribution in lme4/glmer

2010-03-21 Thread Ben Bolker
Dieter Menne menne-biomed.de> writes: > Ben Bolker wrote: > > 3. zero-inflated data may not be particularly well-represented > > by a Gamma distribution: if you actually have a significant number > > of exactly-zero values, you may want to analyze your data in two > > stages, first as a presen

Re: [R] Problem specifying Gamma distribution in lme4/glmer

2010-03-21 Thread Dieter Menne
Ben Bolker wrote: > > > 3. zero-inflated data may not be particularly well-represented > by a Gamma distribution: if you actually have a significant number > of exactly-zero values, you may want to analyze your data in two > stages, first as a presence-absence problem and then as a conditional

Re: [R] Problem specifying Gamma distribution in lme4/glmer

2010-03-21 Thread Ben Bolker
Matthew Giovanni gmail.com> writes: > > Dear R and lme4 users- > > I am trying to fit a mixed-effects model, with the glmer function in > lme4, to right-skewed, zero-inflated, non-normal data representing > understory grass and forb biomass (continuous) as a function of tree > density (indicate

[R] Problem specifying Gamma distribution in lme4/glmer

2010-03-20 Thread Matthew Giovanni
Dear R and lme4 users- I am trying to fit a mixed-effects model, with the glmer function in lme4, to right-skewed, zero-inflated, non-normal data representing understory grass and forb biomass (continuous) as a function of tree density (indicated by leaf-area). Thus, I have tried to specify a Gam