Ben Bolker <bolker <at> zoo.ufl.edu> writes: > For block effects with small variance, lmer will sometimes ... > My question is: what should I suggest to students when this > situation comes up? Can anyone point me to appropriate references? > (I haven't found anything relevant in Pinheiro and Bates, but > I may not have looked in the right place ...)
Gelman has quite some similar examples. Take a look at his schools example in the Bayesian book. Gregor ______________________________________________ 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.
