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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=PT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Eras Medium ITC","sans-serif"'>Hello:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Eras Medium ITC","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Eras Medium ITC","sans-serif"'>I’m running my models and I keep getting these errors: “fitted probabilities numerically 0 or 1 occurred” and “algorithm did not converge”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Eras Medium ITC","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Eras Medium ITC","sans-serif"'>I understand that this means that one of the predictor variables is separating perfectly the values of the dependent variable. My variables are not supposed to be so highly related to the dependent variable. The dependent variable is not derived from the predictors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Eras Medium ITC","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Eras Medium ITC","sans-serif"'>I tried than to use other variables (which I know are not very good predictors) and I got the same errors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Eras Medium ITC","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Eras Medium ITC","sans-serif"'>Is it possible that this is somehow related with some error in BIOMOD or with the structure of my data?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Eras Medium ITC","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Eras Medium ITC","sans-serif"'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Eras Medium ITC","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Eras Medium ITC","sans-serif"'>Frederico Mestre<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>