[R] mcmcglmm starting value example

Hi R-users: Can anyone give an example of giving starting values for MCMCglmm? I can't find any anywhere. I have 1 random effect (physicians, and there are 50 of them) and family="ordinal"． How can I specify starting values for my fixed effects? It doesn't seem to have the option to do so. Than

[R] Hierarchical modeling MCMC with sample size 1

Dear R users: I am using hierchical modeling for a response varible (ordinal) given by patients for each doctor. My MCMC run with MCMMCglmm ( thin=20,nitt=208000,burnin=24000, family='ordinal') still can't have all the parameters pass the GEWEKE diagnosis test. I am trying to find the reason

[R] Fw: an ordinal regression MCMC run high correlation

I tried thinning of the mcmc run with 500,000 iteration. It looks like 100 or 200 is enough to remove the autocorrelation of a1 and tau. Is that too much thining? --- On Tue, 3/16/10, ping chen wrote: > From: ping chen > Subject: an ordinal regression MCMC run high correlation > T

[R] an ordinal regression MCMC run high correlation

I am trying to model a clusterd ordinal response data (either 1, 2 or 3) called , the correponding physician of the patient is also in the data. Since it is ordinal, I used the ordinal logit model topbox[i]~discrete with probability P[j,1],p[j,2], p[j,3], j is the corresponding physician of