R Error: System is computationally singular
On May 24, 2012, at 1:57 PM, Nathan Svoboda wrote:
Greetings, I am trying to fit a zero-inflated Poisson model using zeroinfl() from the pscl library. I have 5 covariates (4 continuous, 1 categorical); the categorical variable has 7 levels. I have had success fitting models that contain only the continuous covariates; however, when I add the categorical variable to any of the models (or if I run it by itself) I get the following error: Error in solve.default(as.matrix(fit$hessian)) : system is computationally singular: reciprocal condition number = 3.46934e-20 The code I am using is: library(pscl) f1 <- formula(LOCS ~ as.factor(LCOVER) + D_ROADS + D_WATER + D_EDGE + D_GRASS) ZIP1 <- zeroinfl(f1, dist="poisson", link = "logit", data = FAWNS) There is no correlation between my covariates. Also, I tried reducing my categorical covariate to 3 levels and still receive the same error. Can anyone suggest why I may be getting this error when I add the categorical covariate?
What does this show: with( FAWNS, table(LOCS, LCOVER) )
David Winsemius, MD West Hartford, CT