[R] Proportion data GAM

Simon Wood s.wood at bath.ac.uk
Wed Oct 15 21:42:34 CEST 2014


Rodrigo,

OK, it looks as if your mgcv help files/manual are somehow out of sync 
with the package version you have loaded. 'betar' is only available from 
mgcv 1.8. If you update to the current mgcv from CRAN then this problem 
should be solved.

best,
Simon

ps. beta regression is only available with REML (or ML) smoothness 
selection in mgcv, so the 'gamma' parameter will be ignored.

pps. Do you really want to limit all your smooths to a maximum of 3 
degrees of freedom by setting k=?. I'd be inclined to allow the 
smoothing parameter selection do its thing with a higher k, and only get 
really restrictive on k if the resulting models somehow don't make sense.

On 15/10/14 20:34, Rodrigo Tardin wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> The result of sessionInfo() is:
> R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=Portuguese_Brazil.1252  LC_CTYPE=Portuguese_Brazil.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=Portuguese_Brazil.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=Portuguese_Brazil.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] splines   stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
>    base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] gamlss_4.3-1      gamlss.dist_4.3-1 MASS_7.3-31
> gamlss.data_4.2-7 MuMIn_1.10.0
> [6] ggplot2_1.0.0     mgcv_1.7-29       nlme_3.1-117      betareg_3.0-5
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>   [1] colorspace_1.2-4  digest_0.6.4      flexmix_2.3-12    Formula_1.1-2
>   [5] grid_3.1.0        gtable_0.1.2      lattice_0.20-29   lmtest_0.9-33
>   [9] Matrix_1.1-3      modeltools_0.2-21 munsell_0.4.2     nnet_7.3-8
> [13] plyr_1.8.1        proto_0.3-10      Rcpp_0.11.2       reshape2_1.4
> [17] sandwich_2.3-1    scales_0.2.4      stats4_3.1.0      stringr_0.6.2
> [21] survival_2.37-7   tools_3.1.0       zoo_1.7-11
>
> Is this that you were asking or the sessionInfo() of the code (it would
> be sessionInfo(a2))?
>
> If it is the sessionInfo(a2) the result is:
> Error in if (pkg == "base") file.path(.Library, "base") else if (pkg
> %in%  :
>    missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
> In addition: There were 50 or more warnings (use warnings() to see the
> first 50)
>
> Thanks
>
> Rodrigo Tardin
>
> Shor Term Scholar - Duke Marine Lab. - Duke University
> Doutorando em Ecologia e Evolução - IBRAG - UERJ
> M.Sc em Biologia Animal - PPGBA - UFRRJ
> Especialista em Docência do Ensino Superior - IAVM
> Laboratório de Bioacústica e Ecologia de Cetáceos - UFRRJ/ IF/ DCA
>
> 2014-10-15 15:22 GMT-04:00 Simon Wood <s.wood at bath.ac.uk
> <mailto:s.wood at bath.ac.uk>>:
>
>     Can you give the result of typing
>     sessionInfo()
>     in the session where this happens, please?
>
>
>     On 15/10/14 16:48, Rodrigo Tardin wrote:
>
>         Hi all,
>
>         I am not sure if this is the right place for this question or if
>         there is
>         one more specific.
>         Anyway, I hope somebody can help me.
>
>         I am trying to run a GAM with beta distribution from mgcv package.
>         My dependent variable is a proportion continuously ranging from
>         0 to 1
>         (whales density) and I have three co-variates Depth, Distance to
>         Coast and
>         Seabed Slope.
>
>              From what I read, beta distribution is the most appropriate
>             for my response
>
>         variable and not binomial.
>         According to mgcv manual, it is possible to specify beta
>         distribution on a
>         GAM with the "betar" function, but I get the following error:
>         could not find function "betar"
>
>         My code is:
>         library(mgcv)
>         a2=gam(Density~s(DEPTH,k=4)+s(__DISTCOAST_1,k=4)+s(SLOPE,k=4),
>         family=betar(link="logit"),__data=misti,gamma=1.4)
>
>         The beta family is specified exactly as it is shown in the manual:
>         bm <-
>         gam(y~s(x0)+s(x1)+s(x2)+s(x3),__family=betar(link="logit"),__data=dat)
>
>         Does anyone know what it seems to be the problem?
>         Thanks in advance,
>         Rodrigo
>
>
>         Rodrigo Tardin
>
>         Shor Term Scholar - Duke Marine Lab. - Duke University
>         Doutorando em Ecologia e Evolu��o - IBRAG - UERJ
>         M.Sc em Biologia Animal - PPGBA - UFRRJ
>         Especialista em Doc�ncia do Ensino Superior - IAVM
>         Laborat�rio de Bioac�stica e Ecologia de Cet�ceos - UFRRJ/ IF/ DCA
>
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