package installtion

That might be an option if it weren't my most important predictor.  I'm thinking my best bet is to use MLWin for the estimation since it will properly set fixed effects
  to 0.  All my other sample size simulation programs use SAS PROC IML which I don't have/can't afford.  I like R since it's free, but I can't work around the problem
I'm currently having.

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From: Uwe Ligges<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
To: Scott Raynaud<scott.raynaud at yahoo.com>
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On 16.11.2011 16:08, Scott Raynaud wrote:

All right.  I upped my level 2 sample size to 60.  My log displays the following:

                   Simulation for sample sizes of  60  macro and unbalanced micro units
   Iteration remain= 990
   Iteration remain= 980
There were 27 warnings (use warnings() to see them)
Error in diag(vcov(fitmodel)) :
     error in evaluating the argument 'x' in selecting a method for function 'diag': Error in asMethod(object) : matrix is not symmetric [1,2]

Looking at the warnings I see:

26: glm.fit: algorithm did not converge
27: In mer_finalize(ans) : gr cannot be computed at initial par (65)

The first 25 are like 26.  So, it seems I'm having the same problem as before.  Again, if this is due to a column of zeroes in my x matrix, the best solution would be to assign zeroes to the fixed effects, but I'm not sure if there's a way to do this.

Why don't you simply delete that variable and hence don't estimate
coefficients for it....

Uwe Ligges

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Well, I could increase the sample size for my second level in hopes that my simulation would run correctly.  However, a better solution would be to assign values of 0 to the fixed effects for this pass through the simulation.  I'm such a novice with R that I don't know if that can be done.  I've looked at the documentation but it's still not clear.


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From: Uwe Ligges<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
To: Scott Raynaud<scott.raynaud at yahoo.com>
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On 15.11.2011 21:34, Scott Raynaud wrote:

OK, I think I see the problem.  Rather than setting method="nAGQ" I need nAGQ=1.  Doing so throws the following error:

Congratulations, now you understood what R meant with its message
"Argument ?method? is deprecated."

"Warning messages:
1: glm.fit: algorithm did not converge
2: In mer_finalize(ans) : gr cannot be computed at initial par (65)
Error in diag(vcov(fitmodel)) :
       error in evaluating the argument 'x' in selecting a method for function 'diag': Error in asMethod(object) : matrix is not symmetric [1,2]"

I need some help interpreting and debugging this.  One thing that I suspect is that there is a column of zeroes in the design matrix,

So have you not even tried to get rid of that? Oh, come on.

Uwe Ligges

but I'm not sure.  Any other possibilities here and how can I diagnose?

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Never mind-I fixed it.

My script is throwing the following error:

"Error in glmer(formula = modelformula, data = data, family = binomial(link = logit),  :
       Argument ?method? is deprecated.
Use ?nAGQ? to choose AGQ.  PQL is not available."

I remember hearing somewhere that PQL is no longer available on lme4 but I have AGQ specified.

Here's the line that fits my model:

(fitmodel<- lmer(modelformula,data,family=binomial(link=logit),method="AGQ"))

If I change it to nAGQ I still get an error.

Any ideas as to what's going on?

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I'm getting the following error in a script: "Error: could not find function "lmer."    I'm wondering of my lme4 package is installed incorrectly.  Can someone tell me the installation procedure?  I looked at the support docs but couldn't translate that into anything that would work.