Re: [R] lme4:glmer with nested data

2011-11-14 Thread Bert Gunter
1. Post this on the R-sig-mixed-models list, not here. 2. (The following "advice" should be treated cautiously): Forget it! With only 5 bats, you have too little information to estimate variance components. Treat the bats as fixed effects and fit via lm (or glm if some of your responses are not ga

[R] lme4:glmer with nested data

2011-11-14 Thread hijita
Dear all, I have the following dataset with results from an experiment with individual bats that performed two tasks related to prey capture under different conditions: X variables: indiv - 5 individual bats used in the experiment; all of which performed both tasks task - 2 tasks that each ind