Publications by Shige

Sweave with Emacs and ESS, problem solved!

09.05.2010

With help from Seb, the nagging problem I had when trying to sweaving with Emacs and ESS (http://old.nabble.com/ESS-and-Sweave-td28339734.html) has been solved.First of all, apply the patch for ess-swv.el, provided by Seb. Second, set the default pdf viewer for ESS by “C-h v ess-pdf-viewer-pref “, then change the value from “ni...

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R-INLA package

19.06.2010

Another R package for mixed effect modeling. Looks promising. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Shige's Research Blog. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to post or find an R/data-s...

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A quetion

21.06.2010

I posted a question to the R-Mixed-Model mailing list but have not had any responses yet:————————————————————————————— Dear All, I wonder if anybody has tried to make glmmBUGS work with JAGS. My attempt was not successful. Here is the simple example I copied from the glmmBUGS...

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Convergence diagnostics with MCMCglmm

05.07.2010

MCMCglmm does not produce more than one chain. So the way to check convergence is to run the model twice, each with different starting values, then conduct the diagnostic with:gelman.diag(m1$Sol, m2$Sol) Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Shige's Research Blog. R-bloggers.c...

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Latent variable analysis package for R

17.07.2010

This is another R package for latent variable analysis. I hope it can soon include multilevel and mixture modeling capacity. Another promising package is OpenMx, which is also under active development and very promising. At this moment, OpenMx seems to have more features than lavaan (e.g. categorical dependent variable, mixture model, etc.), but ...

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Npmlreg and Flexmix

18.07.2010

In my attempt to estimate a mixture regression model for the long-term impact of prenatal famine exposure, I compared results obtained from NPMLREG and Flexmix using the “rainfall” data set came with the package “forward” and was able to achieve identical results from:m.np and m.mix To test the random effect model, I created ...

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Flexmix taks long time…

19.07.2010

I am running a mixture logit model on a sample of 10,000 cases. The model takes a long time (3-4 hours) to run, which makes it nearly impossible to try different specifications and such. It probably makes sense to use a subsample for exploratory analysis then fit the final model on the full sample.This post describes how to draw a ran...

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Red-R

29.07.2010

Red-R seems to have some interesting ideas behind it. Of course it needs some time to mature. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Shige's Research Blog. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're loo...

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NetLogo-R-Extension

01.08.2010

Here is a bridge between NetLogo and R, which looks very interesting. But I was not able to get it work on my Ubuntu box (running the latest R). Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Shige's Research Blog. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learnin...

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Integrating R and Gedit

02.08.2010

Here is how to integrate R and Gedit using Rgedit plugin. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Shige's Research Blog. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to post or find an R/data-scie...

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