Re: [R] Problems with clmm2 (ordinal data fit)

2014-03-16 Thread Rune Haubo
Dear Caroline, Yes, it seems you have complete separation for the 'Timepoint' variable. This means that the likelihood is unbounded for that parameter and the optimizer just terminates when it gets far enough out on an asymptote and improvements are below a threshold. This is also the reason the v

[R] Problems with clmm2 (ordinal data fit)

2014-03-16 Thread Caroline Lustenberger
Dear all I have ordinal data (from a questionnaire with 4 levels) for 2 groups (30 subjects each) and 2 timepoints. So I used a cumulative link mixed model to fit the data (nr = subject number). mod_FV<-clmm2(FV~GruppeVerbelendung+Timepoint,random=nr,data=data,Hess=TRUE,nAGQ=10,na.action=na.om