Re: [R] negative binomial lmer

2006-07-29 Thread Douglas Bates
On 7/28/06, Gregor Gorjanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Bolker bolker at ufl.edu writes: ... I haven't tried it, but you could also consider using a Poisson-lognormal (rather than neg binomial, which is Poisson-gamma) distribution, which might make this all work rather well in lmer:

[R] negative binomial lmer

2006-07-28 Thread Tracy Feldman
To whom it may concern: I have a question about how to appropriately conduct an lmer analysis for negative binomially distributed data. I am using R 2.2.1 on a windows machine. I am trying to conduct an analysis using lmer (for non-normally distributed data and both random and

Re: [R] negative binomial lmer

2006-07-28 Thread ronggui
I think you should use glmm.admb. library(glmmADMB) ?glmm.admb glmm.admb package:glmmADMB R Documentation Generalized Linear Mixed Models using AD Model Builder Description: Fits mixed-effects models to count data using Binomial, Poisson or negative

Re: [R] negative binomial lmer

2006-07-28 Thread Ben Bolker
Tracy Feldman tracysfeldman at yahoo.com writes: To whom it may concern: I have a question about how to appropriately conduct an lmer analysis for negative binomially distributed data. I am using R 2.2.1 on a windows machine. I am trying to conduct an analysis using lmer (for

Re: [R] negative binomial lmer

2006-07-28 Thread Gregor Gorjanc
Ben Bolker bolker at ufl.edu writes: ... I haven't tried it, but you could also consider using a Poisson-lognormal (rather than neg binomial, which is Poisson-gamma) distribution, which might make this all work rather well in lmer: www.cefe.cnrs.fr/esp/TBElston_Parasitology2001.pdf