Re: [R-sig-eco] glmer, quasipoisson and standard errors of the coefficients

2008-09-01 Thread Thomas Sattler
Dear Albert Romero I am referring to SE-part of your question: Lately I had the same problem as you had: SE of my lme-models overlap zero to some extent. Of course, it could be that my variables are just bad. But from other analysis I knew this could not be. On a bypass (I actually wanted to fi

Re: [R-sig-eco] glmer , quasipoisson and standard errors of the coefficients

2008-09-01 Thread Ben Bolker
Albert Romero wrote: Hello, I am trying to simplify backwards a mixed effects model, using lmer function from lme4 package. As my data are species numbers and there exists overdisperison, I think appropriate to use glmer function with error family quasipoisson. I compare one model with its sim