[R] Mixed models fixed effects

[Mark Difford]

Hi Simon,

Carefull, someone is likely to tell you that the "bible" is Pinheiro, J.C.,
and Bates, D.M. (2000) "Mixed-Effects Models in S and S-PLUS", Springer, and
that would be much closer to being correct. Others might mention something
by Searle. Nothing against Crawley, of course. But it usually is better to
get close to the source, and to the active researchers in the field. One
nice thing about the first reference (there are many others) is that Prof.
Bates is an active contributor to this list and to the SIG mixed-models list
(which he maintains):

https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mixed-models

Check it out.

Regards, Mark.


Simon Pickett-4 wrote:
> 
> Also check out these pdfs
> http://cran.r-project.org/other-docs.html
> 
> and try to get your hands on the bible
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/R-Book-Michael-J-Crawley/dp/0470510242
> 
> Simon.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Hi Emma,
>>
>> Continuous predictors are no problem at all. You can mix both continuous
>> and categorial predictors if needed. I suppose your response are counts
>> (the number of bats that passes)? In that case a generalised linear
>> mixed model is more appropriate. With the lme4 package you could try
>> something like this:
>>
>> library(lme4)
>> Model <- glmer(BatPasses ~ Width + Height + (1|Site), family = poisson)
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Thierry
>>
>> PS There is a mailing list dedicated to mixed models: R-Sig-MixedModels
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>> say what the experiment died of.
>> ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
>>
>> The plural of anecdote is not data.
>> ~ Roger Brinner
>>
>> The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not
>> ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of
>> data.
>> ~ John Tukey
>>
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> Van: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
>> Namens Emma Stone
>> Verzonden: woensdag 11 maart 2009 15:29
>> Aan: r-help at r-project.org
>> Onderwerp: Re: [R] Mixed models fixed effects
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> This may sound like a dumb question but I am trying to use a mixed model
>> to
>> determine the predictors of bat activity along hedges within 8 sites. So
>> my
>> response is continuous (bat passes) my predictors fixed effects are
>> continuous (height metres), width (metres) etc and the random effect is
>> site  - can you tell me if the fixed effects can be continuous as all
>> the
>> examples I have read show them as categorical, but this is not covered
>> in
>> any documents I can find.
>>
>> Help!
>>
>> Emma
>>
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