[R-sig-ME] Error in MEEM(object, conLin, control$niterEM) : Singularity in backsolve at level 0, block 1 in LME model

[Arivoara Rabarijaona]

Thank you,
provenance:treatment is normal, nothing is unexpected
I think the problem is with provenance:status, but I don't know how to
resolve it.
Using lmer, I get the message: fixed-effect model matrix is rank deficient
so dropping 18 columns / coefficients

Ari

Le mer. 7 juil. 2021 à 09:52, romunov <romunov using gmail.com> a écrit :

> Have you tried plotting this? My guess is that you will find something
> unexpected in the provenance:treatment level combination.
>
> Cheers,
> Roman
>
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 9:03 AM Arivoara Rabarijaona <arivoara using gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I hope someone can help me. I'm using nlme to fit models.
>>
>> My dataframe (1785 obs) :
>> $ id: Factor w/595 levels
>> $ treatment: Factor w/3 levels
>> $ provenance: Factor w/16 levels
>> $ repetition: Factor w/4 levels
>> $ bloc: Factor w/66 levels # nested to repetition
>> $ response: num ... (1777 obs and 8 NA) # 3 repeated measures by id
>> $ status: Factor w/3 levels, "dominant","codominant","suppressed" # there
>> are 6 provenances without suppressed trees
>>
>> I want to run a modele like this :
>>
>> modele <- lme(response  ~ provenance + treatment + provenance:treatment +
>> status + status:treatment + statuts:provenance,
>>                    random = ~ 1|repetition/bloc,
>>                    correlation = corAR1(form = ~ 1|repetition/bloc/id),
>>                    data, method= "ML", na.action =na.omit)
>>
>> I get the message :
>> Error in MEEM(object, conLin, control$niterEM) :   Singularity in
>> backsolve
>> at level 0, block 1 in LME model
>>
>> If I run the modele without the interaction statuts:provenance, it works.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me how to resolve this error ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Arivoara Rabarijaona
>>
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