Hi, I receive the following warning message when I run a poisson GLM in R:
"glm.fit: fitted rates numerically 0 occurred" The model summary is shown below. The variable 'Species' consists of counts of different species ranging from 0 to 4. I suspect this may have something to do with the warning message but I'm not sure. Can anybody help? Thank you! Anna Call: glm(formula = Species ~ Dist + Time + Alt + Elev.road + Noise + Cloud + Temp + Wind.sp + Water + Hab + Crossing, family = poisson, data = bats1) Deviance Residuals: Min 1Q Median 3Q Max -2.131083 -0.734566 0.005422 0.548956 2.186938 Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|) (Intercept) -7.496e-01 6.642e-01 -1.128 0.25911 Dist 1.993e-04 1.233e-04 1.617 0.10593 Time -4.753e-04 2.114e-03 -0.225 0.82206 Alt 2.042e-04 1.265e-03 0.161 0.87180 Elev.road 2.189e-03 1.960e-03 1.117 0.26418 Noise -8.126e+01 4.528e+01 -1.795 0.07268 . Cloud -1.059e-03 2.274e-03 -0.466 0.64150 Temp 6.660e-02 4.051e-02 1.644 0.10017 Wind.sp -7.553e-02 2.420e-02 -3.121 0.00180 ** WaterY -6.919e-02 1.744e-01 -0.397 0.69162 Hab 1.200e-01 5.051e-02 2.375 0.01755 * CrossingUnd 9.496e-02 1.214e-01 0.782 0.43420 --- Signif. codes: 0 *** 0.001 ** 0.01 * 0.05 . 0.1 1 (Dispersion parameter for poisson family taken to be 1) Null deviance: 253.49 on 239 degrees of freedom Residual deviance: 206.59 on 228 degrees of freedom AIC: 681.56 Number of Fisher Scoring iterations: 6 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.