I am trying to understand better an analysis mean RT in various
conditions in a within subjects design with the overall mean RT /
subject as one of the factors. LME seems to be the right way to do
this. using something like m- lme(rt~ a *b *subjectRT, random=
~1|subject) and then anova(m,type
Do you want to make inference about the specific subjects in your
study? If yes, the subjects are a fixed effect. If instead you want to
make inference about the societal processes that will generate the
subjects you will get in the future, that is a random effect. The
function lme
Its not so much that I wasn't getting the difference between fixed and
random effects. Although, I do like the way you put the comment below.
For my purposes subject is a random effect. It was more on correct
notation in lme with repeated measures designs (my a and b are repeated
while the
