[R-sig-ME] MCMCglmm error-in-variables (total least squares) model?

[Jarrod Hadfield]

Hi Alberto,

Do you know the measurement error in the predictors in advance or do  
you have multiple observations for each predictor variable and wish to  
estimate the error simultaneously?

Cheers,

Jarrod




Quoting Malcolm Fairbrother <M.Fairbrother at bristol.ac.uk> on Sat, 2  
Jan 2016 14:47:08 -0800:

> Dear Alberto (I believe),
> To my knowledge, this is not possible in MCMCglmm (though Jarrod Hadfield,
> the package author, may weigh in with another response).
> A collaborator and I have been working on a paper that shows how to fit
> such models in JAGS (and perhaps Stan), though thus far we've only been
> able to fit such models correcting for measurement error in the predictors
> at the lowest level. Multiple such predictors (including with different
> measurement error variances) are no problem.
> That paper, however, is probably still some months away from being finished
> and presentable. In the meantime, I don't know of any good options for you.
> If other subscribers to this list have any ideas, I'll be quite interested
> too!
> - Malcolm
>
>
>
>
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> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 16:09:53 -0500
>> From: Alberto Gallano <alberto.gc8 at gmail.com>
>> To: r-sig-mixed-models at r-project.org
>> Subject: [R-sig-ME] MCMCglmm error-in-variables (total least squares)
>>         model?
>>
>> I posted this question on Stack Overflow a week ago but received no
>> answers:
>>
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34446618/bayesian-error-in-variables-total-least-squares-model-in-r-using-mcmcglmm
>>
>> This may be a more appropriate venue.
>>
>>
>> I am fitting some Bayesian linear mixed models using the MCMCglmm package.
>> My data includes predictors that are measured with error. I'd therefore
>> like to build a model that takes this into account. My understanding is
>> that a basic mixed effects model in MCMCglmm will minimize error only for
>> the response variable (as in frequentist OLS regression). In other words,
>> vertical errors will be minimized. Instead, I'd like to minimize errors
>> orthogonal to the regression line/plane/hyperplane.
>>
>>    1. Is it possible to fit an error-in-variables (aka total least squares)
>>    model using MCMCglmm or would I have to use JAGS / STAN to do this?
>>    2. Is it possible to do this with multiple predictors in the same model
>>    (I have some models with 3 or 4 predictors, each measured with error)?
>>
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