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[Luca Borger]

Hello,

you should first search the archives, very often  similar questions have 
been asked in the past. E.g. see :

http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help@r-project.org/msg80092.html


 >I noticed that it appears most of the time when I try to include the 
(temperature^2).

Do you have enough data to estimate a quadratic effect?


HTH,

Cheers,

Luca


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Le 20/12/2010 15:55, Marie-Hélène Hachey a écrit :
> Hi, I am running a model with lmer and I had this message from R (2.12)
>> Model<-lmer(freq ~ ln_age_rel + ppt_vis + gps_dec + tempsq + (1|espece/nestid), family=poisson)Messages d'avis :1: In mer_finalize(ans) :  Cholmod warning 'not positive definite' at file:../Cholesky/t_cholmod_rowfac.c, line 4322: In mer_finalize(ans) :  Cholmod warning 'not positive definite' at file:../Cholesky/t_cholmod_rowfac.c, line 4323: In mer_finalize(ans) : singular convergence (7)>  summary (Model)Erreur dans asMethod(object) : matrix is not symmetric [1,2]
> Can anyone give me a clue about what the message means?>  I noticed that it appears most of the time when I try to include the (temperature^2).
> Thank you
> Marie-Helene 		 	   		
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