Re: [R-sig-eco] rarefied data output

2012-03-29 Thread cristabel.duran
On 03/28/2012 06:09 PM, Jari Oksanen wrote: On 28/03/2012, at 18:59 PM, cristabel.duran wrote: On 03/28/2012 05:36 PM, Jari Oksanen wrote: thank you for your help. I want to know the rarefied richness of single plots. and I just now rarefied my data within each factor level with rarefy(),

[R-sig-eco] R and WinBUGS

2012-03-29 Thread Manuel Spínola
Dear list members, This is not a very specific question on R for ecological analysis, but is related. I have been in courses where R and WinBugs are used together for data analysis, however, I still don´t understand why R need to use WinBUGS to perform some bayesian analysis. I teach statistics

[R-sig-eco] R and WinBUGS

2012-03-29 Thread David Valentim Dias
Algorithms for bayesian inference (MCMC) cannot run fast enough inside a scripting language like R. Most authors create plugins to call their fast binary (C/C++) implementations inside of R. Just use them. I recommend JAGS and rjags. Better errors messages and good support from Plummer. Cya

Re: [R-sig-eco] Fixing heteroscedasticity in mixed-effects model?

2012-03-29 Thread Ben Bolker
Malin Pinsky malin.pinsky@... writes: I'm having problems fitting a mixed-effects model for an ecological meta-analysis, and I'm curious if anyone has advice. In particular, it's pretty clear that the variance in the residuals increases with the predicted mean, but my normal fixes don't seem