Jon Lefcheck

Definitely for Drought, convert to 0 = no water and 1 = water. Might be best to code this directly into the data.frame or tibble, rather than specify as as.integer...

There is a known issue with `gam` and non-parametric smoothers with additional arguments (eg, `k=`). Not sure when a fix will be incoming. GAMs are tricky in SEM ____________________________ Jonathan...

Hello, Very good questions-- Yes, the boundary error has to do with the small variance components of the random effects. You could respecify or remove NA's can be problematic if...

Hi Hugo, piecewiseSEM does not perform the imputation but there are other packages that can assist (eg, rfImpute) Hmm, not sure why after removing paths you do not get a...

Hi Hugo, removing the path will free up information to calculate Fisher's C (and Chi-squared) but this reflects the goodness-of-fit of the reduced model. It would not be appropriate to...

Hi Hugo, its perfectly fine to present the saturated model. In which case, you can acknowledge that you have no degrees of freedom leftover with which to calculate your goodness-of-fit...

Hi, gamma distributions are not yet supported. You may investigate whether any distribution specific variance exists & incorporate that into the calculations of SD for the response, following Grace et...

`glmmTMB` is the model fitting function, but can accommodate a range of distributions, some of which are supported (poisson, binomial, etc.) and some of which are not yet (gamma). Apologies...

This is almost certaintly be because you are using a two-column response in your GLMM, which has been troublesome since the start. Any chance you can recode the response as...

Ah this is because you have a two-column response in glmer, which is not yet supported. Can you express instead as a proportion? ____________________________ Jonathan S. Lefcheck, Ph.D. Tennenbaum Coordinating...