On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 07:59:58AM -0500, Douglas Bates wrote: > I would be happy to re-institute p-values for fixed effects in the > summary and anova methods for lmer objects using a denominator degrees > of freedom based on the trace of the hat matrix or the rank of Z:X if > others will volunteer to respond to the "these answers are obviously > wrong because they don't agree with <whatever> and the idiot who wrote > this software should be thrashed to within an inch of his life" > messages. I don't have the patience.
This seems to be more than fair to me. I'll volunteer to help explain why the anova.lmer() output doesn't match SAS, etc. Is it worth putting a caveat in the output and the help files? Is it even worth writing a FAQ about this? Cheers Andrew -- Andrew Robinson Department of Mathematics and Statistics Tel: +61-3-8344-9763 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au ______________________________________________ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
