Dear R-list members, Cynthia M. Jones wrote a paper (Fitting growth curves to retrospective size-at-age data, Fisheries Research 46(2000):123-129; abstract at http://www.elsevier.nl/gej-ng/10/19/44/70/24/37/abstract.html)where the SAS procedure MIXED, Macro NLINMIX (Littell et. al., 1996)was used to estimate the von Bertalanffy growth function parameters assuming that data from the same fish are repeated-measures with autoregressive correlation structure and fitting with a nonlinear repeated-measures model. Is there any similar procedure that I can use in R?
elliptic in my growth library will do this even if the times are unequally spaced. (Unless it changed recently, nlme gives incorrect answers for the AR in this case.)
There is a continuous AR(1) class, corCAR1, in the nlme library which should be used in the case when the times are unequally spaced and measured on a continuous scale. This is equivalent to the correlation structure implemented in elliptic. There are other correlation classes in nlme that can be used with continuous, unequallly spaced times, such as the spatial correlation structures. In the case of a "classical" AR(1) model, because the autocorrelation parameter is allowed to take negative values (unlike in the continuous AR(1) case, where it is restricted to be non-negative), the times need to be integer valued (as stated in the help page for corAR1, the correlation class for AR(1) in nlme). Note that, even in this case, the times are not required to be equally spaced. Regards, --Jose' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jose' Pinheiro Bell Laboratories jcp at research.bell-labs.com 600 Mountain Avenue, Room 2C-258 office: (908) 582-2390 Murray Hill, NJ 07974 fax: (908) 582-3340 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._