I attempted to contact Drew Tyre, but the email I have for him is no
longer in service. 

Hopefully someone can help.

 

I'm using obs.error in R to model turtle occupancy in wetlands.

I have 4 species and 20 possible patch and landscape variables, which
I've been testing in smaller groups.

 

> zib.out<-obs.error(y=painted,m=numvis,bp=zvars,pcovar=7)

 

I get the following error message, with all species, all variable
groups, standardized and unstandardized data...

 

Error in optim(par = rnorm(pcovar + qcovar), fn = obs.error.LL, method =
"L-BFGS-B",  : 

        L-BFGS-B needs finite values of fn

 

I have a large sample size, so we're not sure that this is related to a
convergence problem, but we can't figure out what this error means.

 

Thank you, 

Carol

 

 

Carol Rizkalla

Dept. of Forestry and Natural Resources

Purdue University

West Lafayette, IN 47907-1159

765-494-3599

 


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