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Nested fixed factors in glmer: Error in mer_finalize(ans) : Downdated X'X is not positive definite, 1.
Andrew Robinson · Feb 28, 2013 · r-sig-mixed-models

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Nested fixed factors in glmer: Error in mer_finalize(ans) : Downdated X'X is not positive definite, 1.
Andrew Robinson · Feb 28, 2013 · r-sig-mixed-models

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Plot elements echo NULL (PR#7466)
Andrew Robinson · Jan 3, 2005 · r-devel

Full_Name: Andrew Robinson Version: 2.0.1 OS: FreeBSD Submission from: (NULL) (211.28.168.242) Certain plot elements echo NULL when they are set. For example, > plot(1:10,1:10) > axis(1) NULL > mtext("test") NULL > In...

variance of combinations of means - off topic
Andrew Robinson · Jan 5, 2005 · r-help

Bill, P. 146 of Casella and Berger's "Statistical Inference" 1990 starts a section on bivariate transformations. Andrew -- Andrew Robinson Ph: 208 885 7115 Department of Forest Resources Fa: 208 885 6226 University of Idaho E : andrewr at uidaho.edu...

Interpreting negative diagonal values in a hessian
Andrew Robinson · Jul 20, 2004 · r-help

Hi R-community, I've been trying to fit a model using maximum likelihood in nlm. Upon convergence I examine the hessian and it has a few (not all) positive values on its diagonal, as does its inverse. I am...

R 2.3.0 (alpha) on FreeBSD 6.1 fails make check-all
Andrew Robinson · Mar 28, 2006 · r-devel

Addendum: the following is true for both 2.2.1 and 2.3.0 > > > qhyper(0.01796062766370490, m = 40, n = 30, k = 20) > [1] 7 > > qhyper(0.01796062766370491, m = 40, n = 30, k = 20) > [1] 8 > -- Andrew Robinson Department of...

[OT] - standard errors for parameter estimates under ridge regression and lasso?
Andrew Robinson · Jan 28, 2008 · r-help

Dear R community, I'm curious to know how people go about estimating standard errors for parameter estimates after model selection by ridge regression and the lasso. Do you have any practical or theoretical advice? Warmly, Andrew -- Andrew Robinson Department...

[Off Topic] searching for a quote
Andrew Robinson · Jan 14, 2008 · r-help

Dear community, I'm trying to track down a quote, but can't recall the source or the exact structure - not very helpful, I know - something along the lines that: 80% of [applied] statistics is linear regression ... ? Does this ring...

[EXT] string concatenation
Andrew Robinson · Nov 4, 2020 · r-help

Try paste(x, collapse = ", ") Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Robinson Director, CEBRA and Professor of Biosecurity, School/s of BioSciences and Mathematics & Statistics University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Tel: (+61) 0403 138 955 Email: apro at unimelb.edu.au Website: https...

Diagnostics (was: understanding log-likelihood/model fit)
Andrew Robinson · Aug 19, 2008 · r-sig-mixed-models

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:02:16AM +1000, John Maindonald wrote: > [Actually, a criticism of the Pinheiro and Bates book is that it relies > far too heavily on plots of residuals for its diagnostic checking.] > John, can you...

R doesn't run on g4 iBook with Panther
Andrew Robinson · Jan 3, 2004 · r-help

Martin, check the Console application for error messages. They will help you/us diagnose the problem. During my installation I observed similar behavior, only to discover that I had yet to install the libreadline package from the download. Andrew -- Andrew...

Can we change environment within the browser?
Andrew Robinson · Feb 10, 2007 · r-help

Dear R-helpers, when in the browser, is it possible to change the environment, so as to be able to easily access (print, manipulate) objects in the parent, or elsehwere? I know that it is possible to evaluate expressions in...

How to pass eval.max from lme() to nlminb?
Andrew Robinson · Jul 23, 2006 · r-help

Dear R community, I'm fitting a complex mixed-effects model that requires numerous iterations and function evaluations. I note that nlminb accepts a list of control parameters, including eval.max. Is there a way to change the default eval...

R on Sharp Zaurus 5500?
Andrew Robinson · Jul 6, 2002 · r-help

Hello, has anyone tried to get R running on a Sharp Zaurus 5500? Andrew Andrew Robinson Phone: 208-885-7115 Department of Forest Resources Fax: 208-885-6226 University of Idaho E: andrewr at uidaho.edu Po Box 441133 WWW...

Peculiarity in non-central qchisq for ncp > 294.92 ...
Andrew Robinson · Apr 13, 2003 · r-help

Hello all, Here's my query: Running R 1.6.2 on FreeBSD 5.0, and on WinXP, and I find that the following hangs the process: dchisq(alpha=0.01, df=1, ncp=295) but it does work for...

Looking for non-central F quantile
Andrew Robinson · Mar 7, 2003 · r-help

Greetings all, I'm trying to figure out how to calculate the inverse CDF (i.e. a quantile) for a non-central F distribution. I could put together a quick numerical solver routine using the CDF, but I wonder if...

Selecting amongst large classes of models (Was: Nested AIC)
Andrew Robinson · Feb 21, 2006 · r-help

Professor Ripley, On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 05:36:15PM +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > A recent talk of mine > > http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/Nelder80.pdf > > may be illuminating. There is a published paper version. > Would...

R 2.0.0 is released
Andrew Robinson · Oct 5, 2004 · r-help

Not to mention relativity. R is developing pretty quickly. Andrew > conveniently avoiding all those difficult angling shots, windage and > the thousand insults to which slings and arrows are heir. > > Jim > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https...

(PR#4307) Re: [Rd] par(new=T) works differently in pdf vs postscript if applied before a plot statement. (PR#4037)
Andrew Robinson · Sep 1, 2003 · r-devel

Certainly. postscript("test.ps") par(new=T) plot(1:10,1:10) dev.off() Produces a postscript image that can be opened. However pdf("test.pdf") par(new=T) plot(1:10,1:10) dev.off() produces a pdf that...

Fast ARMA
Andrew Robinson · Jan 23, 2004 · r-help

Greetings R-friends, I'm looking for some code to fit an ARMA, up to (3,3), preferably with ML. I'm doing a simulation experiment, so I need to fit it to the order of millions of times. I...

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