Greetings R Users! I have a data set of count responses for which I have made repeated observations on the experimental units (stream reaches) over two air photo dates, hence the mixed effect. I have been using Dr. Jim Lindsey's GLMM function found in his "repeated" measures package with the "poisson" family.
My problem though is that I don't think the poisson distribution is the right one to discribe my data which is overdispersed; the variance is greater than the mean. I have read that the "negative binomial" regression models can account for some of the differences among observations by adding in a error term that independent of the the covariates. I haven't yet come across a mixed effects model that can use the "negative binomial" distribution. If any of you know of such a function - I will certainly look forward to hearing from you! Additionally, if any of you have insight on zero-inflated data, and testing for this, I'd be interested in your comments too. I'll post a summary of your responses to this list. Best Regards, Nadele Flynn, M.Sc. candidate. University of Alberta ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html