John Maindonald <john.maindonald <at> anu.edu.au> writes: ... > The issue of checking for normality of effects in multi-level > models has not been very much researched, as far as I can > tell. The function residuals() gives residuals that adjust for > all except the "highest" level of random effects. Depending > on the relative magnitudes of the variance components, > whether or not these "residuals" are anywhere near normal > may not be of much or any consequence.ΕΎ
For what it is worth I have came across this paper just recently: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/114280441 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.