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Beause you use your own function, your result is not reproducible, so that it is unlikely you can get useful help. Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 6:11 AM Sanna Soomro <s.soomr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > > > I apologize for the late response – I’ve been busy. > > I have attached my R code in the email but I don’t know if it gone > through. > > The gibb_lasso function is what I created myself. > > The packages I am using are mvtnorm, GIGrvg, tmvtnorm, RGeode and > truncnorm. > > > > Best regards > > Sanna > > > > *From: *Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> > *Date: *Thursday, 5 March 2020 at 15:40 > *To: *Sanna Soomro <s.soomr...@gmail.com> > *Subject: *Re: [R] rgamma function produces NaN values > > > > What package are you using? -- this is requested by the posting guide. > > > Bert Gunter > > "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and > sticking things into it." > -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 12:50 AM Sanna Soomro <s.soomr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > In my code, I want to sample from the posterior distribution to get > estimates for each parameter via the Bayesian approach. My model has > spatial coefficient and lasso penalty. > > When I run this line > > gibbs_lasso(y = Y, x= X, W=W.rook, tau = 0.5, M=2) > > It works, however, when I changed M from 2 to 5, I get the following error: > > Error in rgig(1, 0.5, (SIGMA[m, ]/theta2) * ((y[ik] - crossprod(x[ik, : > invalid parameters for GIG distribution: lambda=0.5, chi=nan, psi=nan > In addition: Warning message: > In rgamma(1, shape = 1.5 * n + a0, rate = SIGMAgamma + b0) : NAs produced > > It makes sense that rgig cannot accept NaN values of sigma parameter in its > computation. But why does rgamma produces NaN value for sigma? The gamma > distribution require both shape and scale parameters to be positive and my > R computations for both should always be positive then sigma can be sampled > easily. So, what went wrong in my code? > > Best regards > Sanna > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
