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HPDinterval problem

Hi,

Can anyone tell me why I am not getting the correct intervals for
fixed effect terms for the following generalized linear mixed model
from HPDinterval:
R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18)
i386-pc-mingw32

locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"
"methods"   "base"

other attached packages:
       coda        lme4      Matrix     lattice
   "0.10-7" "0.9975-13" "0.9975-11"   "0.14-17"
Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max.
    0.0     0.0     1.0     2.3     3.0    30.0
Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max.
  0.000   0.000   1.000   2.322   3.000  30.000
Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max.
  0.000   0.000   1.000   2.315   3.000  30.000
Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max.
   0.00    4.00    7.00   11.99   15.00  108.00
Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max.
   0.00    4.00    7.00   11.94   15.00  108.00
Generalized linear mixed model fit using Laplace
Formula: o ~ pv1o + pv2o + pv1toa + pv2toa + sesblf + (pv1o | prov) +
(pv1toa | prov) + (pv1o | pm) + (pv1toa | pm)
   Data: mydata[1:1392, ]
 Family: quasipoisson(log link)
  AIC  BIC logLik deviance
 2285 2390  -1123     2245
Random effects:
 Groups   Name        Variance   Std.Dev. Corr
 prov     (Intercept) 0.68110734 0.825292
          pv1o        0.01182079 0.108723 -0.927
 prov     (Intercept) 0.09896363 0.314585
          pv1toa      0.00029002 0.017030 -0.182
 pm       (Intercept) 0.05023998 0.224143
          pv1o        0.00234292 0.048404 -0.789
 pm       (Intercept) 0.01918719 0.138518
          pv1toa      0.00011984 0.010947 -0.086
 Residual             1.54376281 1.242483
number of obs: 1392, groups: prov, 24; prov, 24; pm, 12; pm, 12

Fixed effects:
             Estimate Std. Error t value
(Intercept) -0.372258   0.233326  -1.595
pv1o         0.151591   0.028778   5.268
pv2o         0.029524   0.007247   4.074
pv1toa       0.025669   0.006221   4.126
pv2toa       0.004344   0.003755   1.157
sesblf2      0.074507   0.186258   0.400
sesblf3     -0.037145   0.188021  -0.198
sesblf4      0.155999   0.187175   0.833

Correlation of Fixed Effects:
        (Intr) pv1o   pv2o   pv1toa pv2toa ssblf2 ssblf3
pv1o    -0.638
pv2o    -0.036 -0.099
pv1toa  -0.073 -0.050 -0.029
pv2toa  -0.043 -0.035 -0.156 -0.458
sesblf2 -0.411 -0.009  0.040  0.002  0.012
sesblf3 -0.412 -0.005  0.039 -0.002  0.037  0.516
sesblf4 -0.413 -0.006  0.044  0.003  0.028  0.513  0.514
lower        upper
(Intercept)         -0.372258256 -0.372258256
pv1o                 0.151590854  0.151590854
pv2o                 0.029524315  0.029524315
pv1toa               0.025668727  0.025668727
pv2toa               0.004343653  0.004343653
sesblf2              0.074507427  0.074507427
sesblf3             -0.037144631 -0.037144631
sesblf4              0.155998825  0.155998825
log(prov.(In))      -1.547675380 -0.345723770
log(prov.pv1o)      -5.610048117 -4.407086692
atanh(prv.(I).pv1)  -2.509960360 -1.663905782
log(prov.(In))      -4.030294678 -2.823797787
log(prov.pv1t)      -9.370781684 -8.165302813
atanh(prv.(I).pv1)  -1.146944941 -0.289800204
log(pm.(In))        -4.420270387 -2.597929912
log(pm.pv1o)        -7.227500164 -5.401277510
atanh(pm.(I).pv1)   -2.172644329 -0.886969199
log(pm.(In))        -6.071675906 -4.252728431
log(pm.pv1t)       -10.230334351 -8.403082501
atanh(pm.(I).pv1)   -0.810182999  0.503799332
attr(,"Probability")
[1] 0.95




Thanks,
Reza