[R] Fwd: Variance Components in R

2006-08-17 Thread Iuri Gavronski
9500 records. It didn`t run in SPSS or SAS on Windows machines, so I am trying to convert the SPSS script to R to run in a RISC station at the university. On 8/17/06, Doran, Harold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Iuri: > > The lmer function is optimal for large data with crossed random effects. > H

Re: [R] Fwd: Variance Components in R

2006-08-17 Thread Spencer Graves
Hi, Iuri: How much RAM and how fast a microprocessor (and what version of Windows) do you have? You might still try it in R under Windows. The results might be comparable or dramatically better in R than in SPSS or SAS. hope this helps. Spencer Graves Iuri Gavronski wrot

Re: [R] Fwd: Variance Components in R

2006-08-17 Thread Iuri Gavronski
We have tried on many machines, from my laptop to a dual core Intel processor with 1GB of RAM. On 8/17/06, Spencer Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, Iuri: > > How much RAM and how fast a microprocessor (and what version of > Windows) do you have? You might still try it in R under Wi

Re: [R] Fwd: Variance Components in R

2006-08-17 Thread Spencer Graves
Burt Gunter just reminded me that the completion time could also be affected by the numbers of levels of each of the factors, especially random effects: With N records, any variance components / mixed model software using MLE or REML will have to invert repeatedly an N x N matrix for the