[R] Fitting a mixed negative binomial model
Jose A. Aleman
jaaleman at Princeton.EDU
Thu Apr 7 19:15:52 CEST 2005
Dear list members,
I want to fit a nonlinear mixed model using the nlme command. My dependent
variable takes the form of event counts for different countries over a
number of years, and hence I was going to fit a mixed effects negative
binomial model. The problem, as far as I can glean from Pinheiro & Bates
2000, is that I need a model that is not normal in the errors. All the
models they discuss have linear error structures. Is there a package in the
R language that fits a negative binomial mixed effects model?
Thank you,
Jose Aleman
PhD Candidate
Politics Department
130 Corwin Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
609.937.0190
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