Re: [R-sig-eco] Zero inflated data on some levels of a random factor in mixed models

2014-09-17 Thread Krista Takkis
Dear Mollie and Ben, Thank you very much for your recommendations! Best regards, Krista 2014-09-17 3:33 GMT+03:00 Mollie Brooks : > Dear Krista, > > glmmADMB will only model a zero inflation constant that equally applies to > all species (i.e. no predictors for number of zeros). It sounds like i

Re: [R-sig-eco] Zero inflated data on some levels of a random factor in mixed models

2014-09-16 Thread Mollie Brooks
Dear Krista, glmmADMB will only model a zero inflation constant that equally applies to all species (i.e. no predictors for number of zeros). It sounds like in your case, zero inflation varies by species. The easiest thing to do is to model the zero/non-zero parts separately as you suggest. If

[R-sig-eco] Zero inflated data on some levels of a random factor in mixed models

2014-09-15 Thread Krista Takkis
Dear all, I have a set of data on nectar volumes from four plant species. Two species have ample zeroes in the data (for one species almost 1/3 of the flowers had no nectar), but two species don’t have excessive zeroes in the data and have a normal distribution. I am trying to find out, what wou