[R-sig-ME] R-sig-mixed-models Digest, Vol 141, Issue 25

David Disabato ddi@@b01 @ending from gm@il@com
Wed Sep 26 22:34:14 CEST 2018


I would agree with others about the ability for lme4 to more easily and
flexibly specify the random effect variance-covariance matrix, including
autocorrelation for longitudinal models, as is available in nlme, SPSS, and
SAS.

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> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:51:24 -0400
> Subject: [R-sig-ME] R Consortium call for funding
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> https://www.r-consortium.org/announcement/2018/09/25/fall-2018-isc-call-for-proposals
>
> "What can you do to improve the R ecosystem and how can the R Consortium
> help you do it?"
>
>  The mixed-model ecosystem is admittedly a small part of the R
> ecosystem, but I (biasedly) think it's an important one.
>
>   If people have ideas & opinions about how a chunk of money on the
> order of $10,000 could be valuably spent to improve the mixed-model
> ecosystem in a way that would be appealing to a very broad audience of
> useRs, please discuss.
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> The deadline for submitting a proposal is midnight PST, Sunday October
> 31, 2018.
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>   cheers
>    Ben Bolker
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> From: Andrew Robinson <A.Robinson using ms.unimelb.edu.au>
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> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 07:06:15 +1000
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-ME] R Consortium call for funding
> Hi Ben,
>
> I do really miss the variance functions of nlme, and the temporal and
> spatial autocorrelation handling.
>
> Warm wishes,
>
> Andrew
>
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> On 26 September 2018 at 06:51, Ben Bolker <bbolker using gmail.com> wrote:
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> >
> > https://www.r-consortium.org/announcement/2018/09/25/fall-
> > 2018-isc-call-for-proposals
> >
> > "What can you do to improve the R ecosystem and how can the R Consortium
> > help you do it?"
> >
> >  The mixed-model ecosystem is admittedly a small part of the R
> > ecosystem, but I (biasedly) think it's an important one.
> >
> >   If people have ideas & opinions about how a chunk of money on the
> > order of $10,000 could be valuably spent to improve the mixed-model
> > ecosystem in a way that would be appealing to a very broad audience of
> > useRs, please discuss.
> >
> > The deadline for submitting a proposal is midnight PST, Sunday October
> > 31, 2018.
> >
> >
> >   cheers
> >    Ben Bolker
> >
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> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:17:42 -0500
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-ME] R Consortium call for funding
> Personally, I’m trying to duplicate some standard repeated measures
> analysis from SAS and am missing Kenward-Roger and Satterthwaite
> corrections for nlme. I had some concerns about lmeTest, but I haven’t
> looked at that in a while - I’m a bit more concerned with structure error
> covariances.
>
> Cheers,
>
> > On Sep 25, 2018, at 3:51 PM, Ben Bolker <bbolker using gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> https://www.r-consortium.org/announcement/2018/09/25/fall-2018-isc-call-for-proposals
> >
> > "What can you do to improve the R ecosystem and how can the R Consortium
> > help you do it?"
> >
> > The mixed-model ecosystem is admittedly a small part of the R
> > ecosystem, but I (biasedly) think it's an important one.
> >
> >  If people have ideas & opinions about how a chunk of money on the
> > order of $10,000 could be valuably spent to improve the mixed-model
> > ecosystem in a way that would be appealing to a very broad audience of
> > useRs, please discuss.
> >
> > The deadline for submitting a proposal is midnight PST, Sunday October
> > 31, 2018.
> >
> >
> >  cheers
> >   Ben Bolker
> >
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> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 09:56:06 +0200
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-ME] R Consortium call for funding
>
> Thankyou.
> I would like to see the functionality of nlme and lmer4 combined,
> especially
> regarding variance-covariance structure.
> Regards
> Lize van der Merwe
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-sig-mixed-models <r-sig-mixed-models-bounces using r-project.org> On
> Behalf Of Ben Bolker
> Sent: Tuesday, 25 September 2018 22:51
> To: r-sig-mixed-models using r-project.org
> Subject: [R-sig-ME] R Consortium call for funding
>
>
>
> https://www.r-consortium.org/announcement/2018/09/25/fall-2018-isc-call-for-
> proposals
>
> "What can you do to improve the R ecosystem and how can the R Consortium
> help you do it?"
>
>  The mixed-model ecosystem is admittedly a small part of the R ecosystem,
> but I (biasedly) think it's an important one.
>
>   If people have ideas & opinions about how a chunk of money on the order
> of
> $10,000 could be valuably spent to improve the mixed-model ecosystem in a
> way that would be appealing to a very broad audience of useRs, please
> discuss.
>
> The deadline for submitting a proposal is midnight PST, Sunday October 31,
> 2018.
>
>
>   cheers
>    Ben Bolker
>
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> From: Martin Maechler <maechler using stat.math.ethz.ch>
> To: Peter Claussen <dakotajudo using mac.com>
> Cc: Ben Bolker <bbolker using gmail.com>, "r-sig-mixed-models using r-project.org" <
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> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:00:44 +0200
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-ME] R Consortium call for funding
> >>>>> Peter Claussen via R-sig-mixed-models
> >>>>>     on Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:17:42 -0500 writes:
>
>     > Personally, I’m trying to duplicate some standard repeated measures
> analysis from SAS and am missing Kenward-Roger and Satterthwaite
> corrections for nlme. I had some concerns about lmeTest, but I haven’t
> looked at that in a while - I’m a bit more concerned with structure error
> covariances.
>
> I assume you mean 'lmerTest' above, the CRAN package originally
> mostly by Rune Haubo Christensen
>        https://cran.r-project.org/package=lmerTest
>
> I think its Satterthwaite (and Kenward-Roger via CRAN package
> 'pbkrtest') 'df' approximation computations have become quite
> reliable, after Rune's recent refurbishing, see also
>
> https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/runehaubo/lmerTestR/blob/master/pkg_notes/Satterthwaite_for_LMMs.html
>
> -- as always at least as long as you refrain from fitting much
>    overparametrized models -- which you should even though some
>    authors tell you to do so.
>
>
> Martin Maechler
> ETH Zurich
>
>     > Cheers,
>
>     >> On Sep 25, 2018, at 3:51 PM, Ben Bolker <bbolker using gmail.com> wrote:
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
> https://www.r-consortium.org/announcement/2018/09/25/fall-2018-isc-call-for-proposals
>     >>
>     >> "What can you do to improve the R ecosystem and how can the R
> Consortium
>     >> help you do it?"
>     >>
>     >> The mixed-model ecosystem is admittedly a small part of the R
>     >> ecosystem, but I (biasedly) think it's an important one.
>     >>
>     >> If people have ideas & opinions about how a chunk of money on the
>     >> order of $10,000 could be valuably spent to improve the mixed-model
>     >> ecosystem in a way that would be appealing to a very broad audience
> of
>     >> useRs, please discuss.
>     >>
>     >> The deadline for submitting a proposal is midnight PST, Sunday
> October
>     >> 31, 2018.
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> cheers
>     >> Ben Bolker
>     >>
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