[R] Help with multiple poisson regression with MLE2

Ben Bolker bolker at ufl.edu
Mon Feb 1 13:55:39 CET 2010


elena daniela concepcion <elenadconcepcion <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Hi, I'm trying to make multiple poisson regressions with the MLE2 command.
> I have used the following expression, but I receive an error message:
> 
> poisfit <- mle2(y ~ dpois(exp(b0 + b1*x1 + b2*x2)), start=list(b0=1, b1=1,
> b2=1), data=data1)
> Error in optim(par = c(1, 1, 1), fn = function (p)  :
>   non-finite initial value 'vmmin'
> 
> I have changed initial values using coefficient values given by the GLM
> standard procedure but it still doesn't work.
> Do someone knows where is the problem?
> 

   There's nothing obviously wrong here.  A reproducible example
would be very helpful ... this *should* give the same result
as  glm(y~x1+x2,family=poisson,data=data1) ...  What is
with(data1,range(exp(b0+b1*x1+b2*x2))) ?



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