In addition to the response below, Doug Bates has talked about this on this list previously. I did
> RSiteSearch('bates degrees of freedom lmer') The first one that came up has Doug's response to this question as well Harold -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Cobo-Lewis Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 8:53 AM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] R-help Digest, Vol 32, Issue 26 r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 6:00 AM -0500 wrote: Ronaldo, Try Harold's suggestion. The df still won't agree, because lmer (at least in its current version) just puts an upper bound on the df. But that should be OK, because all those t tests are approximations anyways, and you can get better confidence intervals (credible intervals, whatever) by using the mcmcsamp() function that works with lmer() alan > "Doran, Harold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> responded: > > >>There is an issue with implicit nesting in lmer. In your lme() model >>you nest block/irrigation/density/fertilizer. In lmer you need to do >>something like (I dind't include all of your variables, but I think >>the makes the point) >> >>lmer(yield~irrigation*density*fertilizer+(1|fertilizer:density)+(1|den >>sity), data) >> >>Which notes that fertilizer is nested in density. >> >>Try this and then compare the results. > "Ronaldo Reis-Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote: > >>I make the correct model with aov, lme do compare with lmer. > >>But I cant make a correct model in lmer. Look that the aov and lme >>results are similars, but very different from lmer. In aov and lme is >>used the correct DF for each variable, in lmer it use a same DF for all? Denom=54. > -- Alan B. Cobo-Lewis, Ph.D. (207) 581-3840 tel Department of Psychology (207) 581-6128 fax University of Maine Orono, ME 04469-5742 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.umaine.edu/visualperception ______________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________ 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