Re: [R] error message in simulation

2003-10-28 Thread Thomas W Blackwell
Yu-Kang - Simulations by their nature use randomly generated data. Sometimes the random data doesn't contain enough information to fully determine the parameter estimates for one iteration or another. It seems likely that that is what happened here. The design matrix is singular for one iteratio

[R] error message in simulation

2003-10-28 Thread Tu Yu-Kang
Dear R-users, I am a dentist (so forgive me if my question looks stupid) and came across a problem when I did simulations to compare a few single level and two level regressions. The simulations were interrupted and an error message came out like 'Error in MEestimate(lmeSt, grps) : Singularity