Negative variance component [Software]

posted by ElMaestro  – Denmark, 2014-01-31 09:20 (4099 d 21:54 ago) – Posting: # 12300
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Hi,

❝ if(Hypothesis = 'Sequence*Subject', 100*sqrt(exp((MS-MSerror)/2)-1), ''), in my data MS is smaller than MSerror hence the resultant number before taking last step squareroot becomes negative.

❝ Is it true that in the case the intersubject CV is considered nonestimable? Or is there other way to calculate this out?


I think PHX is in mixed mode here. I'd switch to an all-fixed model. The results is the same as long as we talk standard 2,2,2-BE. If you really want to apply a mixed model for the result, then you can probably first do the all-fixed trick to get estimates of effects and between + within variances, then use the results coming from the all-fixed analysis as starter guess for the optimizer in the mixed model. That also puts less stress on the optimiser so your risk of getting trouble with the optimizer worker's union is low :-D
I am not a PHX/winnonlin user so I do not know the syntax for this approach.

Finally, without knowing anything about PHX/winnonlin, how about trying Subject everywhere rather than Sequence*Subject or Subject*Sequence?

Pass or fail!
ElMaestro

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