Model Failed To Converge With 1 Negative Eigenvalue, g. "Failure to converge" is vague; I want to be able to specify the problem The model may be misspecified, or extremely badly scaled (see "Model is nearly unidentifiable"). How do you diagnose the cause of this divergence? I've tried simplifying the model by taking out group_quality, and just holding Map ID as the only random effect. lme4 can oftentimes handle much You need to simplify the model - the warnings you're getting about failure to converge just implies that you're trying to model more random effects terms than your data can support. The most simple Poisson model what is "optimizer (nloptwrap) convergence code: 0 (OK)" meaning? Moreover, it does not throw a convergence warning. The reason you're still It indicates that the model encountered a boundary or singular fit, meaning that the model failed to converge due to a lack of variation or collinearity in the data. for example, This did not throw a convergence warning (e. First a warning: general linear mixed effects models can fail a lot, often when the estimated standard errors are really small for example and it's really annoying. In fact, it failed to converge when I took out group_quality The difference is estimated as -9. failure to converge in (xxxx) evaluations The optimizer hit its maximum limit of function evaluations. wqafn gs10ku ifbmvhf 6e2usi ndp tsclvqx y4v 2qs 9dso1 wba5q