Bert Gunter <gunter.berton <at> gene.com> writes: > I think we owe Doug Bates a little more respect than that!
If you check my postings on the forum and on my homepage (subject: Gastric Emptying), you will find that there are few people that pay so much respect to Douglas Bates' contributions than I do. I noted though that there was an ambiguous sentences in my previous note: "Not to use lmer for gaussian models" should have been extended by "but to use lme instead when possible". Nevertheless, there is a problem that we as "end users" are left in a dangling state. Douglas Bates has made his point in a detailed statement on this list. After 20 years in applied medical statistics I am probable at 202 level, but I simply have to accept his arguments even if I do not understand all details. However, when I like the original poster have to rebut a referee's argument, it is very difficult to use a well-formulated list message to make a point in the three-capitals dominated world. Dieter ______________________________________________ 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.