[R-sig-eco] AIC / BIC in lmer and glmer

2010-08-05 Thread Philip Dixon
My apologies to the list. My e-mail this morning about interpreting AIC in lmer() was off-target. I did not notice that Chris's call to lmer() included family = binomial, which means the actual estimation is done by glmer(). glmer() ignores the REML= argument. glmer() only does approximate

Re: [R-sig-eco] AIC / BIC in lmer and glmer

2010-08-05 Thread Chris Howden
.@r-project.org [mailto:r-sig-ecology-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Philip Dixon Sent: Friday, 6 August 2010 7:32 AM To: r-sig-ecology@r-project.org Subject: [R-sig-eco] AIC / BIC in lmer and glmer My apologies to the list. My e-mail this morning about interpreting AIC in lmer() was off-target. I