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posted by yjlee168 Homepage – Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2014-10-09 20:14 (3862 d 23:07 ago) – Posting: # 13682
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Dear Helmut,

❝ I’m not gifted with [image]


OK.

❝ [...]

❝ Datasets failing to converge in Phoenix:

Initial variance matrix is not positive definite. This indicates an invalid starting point for the algorithm.

However, initial values in Phoenix REML are obtained by the Method of Mo­ments (MoM). It is not possible to set them “manually”.


If this is the massage for convergence failure, then it is not caused by "reaching its max. iterations..." as lme(). Is there any random effect specified or are all effects fixed in model for this situation? Could you try with all effects fixed to see if it can be improved?

All the best,
-- Yung-jin Lee
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