[R-sig-ME] zero-inflation beta or gamma model?

[Ben Bolker]

  The zero-inflation stuff is only available in the development
version of glmmTMB at the moment ... although we hope to submit a new
version to CRAN in the very near future.  (See
https://github.com/glmmTMB/glmmTMB/blob/master/README.md for
instructions on installing the development version.)

On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 5:28 AM Luca Santini <luca.santini.eco using gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I have a response variable expressed as proportion that varies from 0 to 1. The variable is highly left skewed, and about half of the values are zeros. I found a previous question related to a possible use of beta family together with a zero-inflation, to which B. Bolker replied it was possible using a hurdle approach in the glmmTMB package. I rescaled the response to 0 - 0.999 (only 1 value is = 1) and tried this approach.
>
> However, when I run
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> mod<-glmmTMB(TerrBeta2 ~ 1 + (1|Family/Genus/Species) + (1|Site/Year/Month), family=beta_family(), ziformula=~., data=data2)
>
> I get the following error message (looks like the ziformula argument is ignored)
>
> Error in eval(family$initialize) : y values must be 0 < y < 1
>
> I also tried to specify the family differently
>
> mod<-glmmTMB(TerrBeta2 ~ 1 + (1|Family/Genus/Species) + (1|Site/Year/Month), family=list(family="beta",link="logit"), ziformula=~., data=data2)
>
> But I get this
>
> Error in nlminb(start = par, objective = fn, gradient = gr, control = control$optCtrl) :
>   gradient function must return a numeric vector of length 15
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: In glmmTMB(TerrBeta2 ~ 1 + (1 | Family/Genus/Species) + (1 | Site/Year/Month),  :
>   some components missing from ‘family’: downstream methods may fail
> 2: In mkTMBStruc(formula, ziformula, dispformula, combForm, mf, fr,  :
>   specifying ‘family’ as a plain list is deprecated
> 3: In nlminb(start = par, objective = fn, gradient = gr, control = control$optCtrl) :
>   NA/NaN function evaluation
> Timing stopped at: 0.626 0.065 0.689
>
> Any suggestion?
>
> Another option to avoid rescaling the variable may be using the gamma family, but I get into the same error messages.
> Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Best
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