Message-ID: <1313000207.89768.YahooMailNeo@web125801.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
Date: 2011-08-10T18:16:47Z
From: array chip
Subject: specification of corAR1()
In-Reply-To: <1312998703.10700.72.camel@prometheus.geog.ucl.ac.uk>
Thanks Garvin. I figured it out as well, :-)
John
----- Original Message -----
From: Gavin Simpson <gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk>
To: array chip <arrayprofile at yahoo.com>
Cc: "r-sig-mixed-models at r-project.org" <r-sig-mixed-models at r-project.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: [R-sig-ME] specification of corAR1()
On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 10:07 -0700, array chip wrote:
> Hi all, I am struggling to learn to use corAR1() correlation structure. Let me use the Machines data set from nlme package as an example:
>
> I added a time variable to create a new dataset:
>
> > Machines2<-cbind(Machines, time=c(1,2,3))
>
> This one runs without any problem:
>
>
> > lme(score~Machine,data=Machines2,random=list(Worker=pdSymm(~0+Machine)),correlation=corAR1())
That's not what the first argument of corAR1() is for. Not the first
time that has caught someone out (there's at least you and me!).
G
>
> But all of the following generated the same error message:
> > lme(score~Machine,data=Machines2,random=list(Worker=pdSymm(~0+Machine)),correlation=corAR1(~time))
> > lme(score~Machine,data=Machines2,random=list(Worker=pdSymm(~0+Machine)),correlation=corAR1(~time|Worker))
> > lme(score~Machine,data=Machines2,random=list(Worker=pdSymm(~0+Machine)),correlation=corAR1(~time|Worker/Machine))
>
> "Error in abs(value) : Non-numeric argument to mathematical function"
>
> Did I misunderstand something here?
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> John
>
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