[R] Pseudolikelihood Estimation of spatial GLMM using R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 19/06/2012 22:29, Herrfay wrote:
> Dear R users,
>
> I've been trying to find an R package which does the PL estimation of
> spatial GLMMs especially with the negative binomial model. so it would be
> something similar to the "proc GLIMMIX" with the PL method in SAS. I've
> looked up some possible packages related to GLMMs, but it doesn't seem to be
> anyone using the PL estimation.

Well, have you looked at MASS?  You didn't tell us what 'PL' is, but 
from memory GLIMMIX does something close to PQL as done by 
MASS::glmmPQL.  And AFAIR that does support negative-binomial GLMs 
(which of necessity have fixed theta and as parametrized as in MASS, the 
book).

>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Fei He
> UCR Statistics
>


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