Message-ID: <580233.74151.qm@web26210.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2007-12-13T22:15:31Z
From: Ilona Leyer
Subject: convergence error code in mixed effects models
Dear All,
I want to analyse treatment effects with time series
data: I measured e.g. leaf number (five replicate
plants) in relation to two soil pH - after 2,4,6,8
weeks. I used mixed effects models, but some analyses
didn?t work. It seems for me as if this is a randomly
occurring problem since sometimes the same model works
sometimes not.
An example:
> names(test)
[1] "rep" "treat" "leaf" "week"
> library (lattice)
> library (nlme)
> test<-groupedData(leaf~week|rep,outer=~treat,test)
> model<-lme(leaf~treat,random=~leaf|rep)
Error in lme.formula(leaf~ treat, random = ~week|rep)
:
nlminb problem, convergence error code = 1;
message = iteration limit reached without convergence
(9)
Has anybody an idea to solve this problem?
Thanks
Ilona
Ilona Leyer
Conservation Biology
University of Marburg
Germany
e-mail: ileyer at yahoo.de