Re : [R] Fitting a mixed negative binomial model

2005-04-14 Thread Naji
Ben Dave all, I'm a user of ADModel (product of Otter Research) Just a word to say that for maximisation, I always rely on Admodel. It's really fast (amazing when you have an important number of parameters), can be used either as a standalone application or as DLL I do use GAUSS (Aptech), R

Re: [R] Fitting a mixed negative binomial model

2005-04-13 Thread Henric Nilsson
Ben Bolker said the following on 2005-04-12 21:40: This is a little bit tricky (nonlinear, mixed, count data ...) Off the top of my head, without even looking at the documentation, I think your best bet for this problem would be to use the weights statement to allow the variance to be

Re: [R] Fitting a mixed negative binomial model

2005-04-13 Thread Ben Bolker
I *think* (but am not sure) that these guys were actually (politely) advertising a commercial package that they're developing. But, looking at the web page, it seems that this module may be freely available -- can't tell at the moment. Ben On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Henric Nilsson wrote: Ben

[R] Fitting a mixed negative binomial model

2005-04-13 Thread dave fournier
I *think* (but am not sure) that these guys were actually (politely) advertising a commercial package that they're developing. But, looking at the web page, it seems that this module may be freely available -- can't tell at the moment. Ben The Software for negative binomial mixed models

RE: [R] Fitting a mixed negative binomial model

2005-04-12 Thread Ben Bolker
This is a little bit tricky (nonlinear, mixed, count data ...) Off the top of my head, without even looking at the documentation, I think your best bet for this problem would be to use the weights statement to allow the variance to be proportional to the mean (and add a normal error term for

[R] Fitting a mixed negative binomial model

2005-04-07 Thread Jose A. Aleman
Dear list members, I want to fit a nonlinear mixed model using the nlme command. My dependent variable takes the form of event counts for different countries over a number of years, and hence I was going to fit a mixed effects negative binomial model. The problem, as far as I can glean from