[R] Documents for LME4

[Douglas Bates]

On 8/14/05, Dieter Menne <dieter.menne at menne-biomed.de> wrote:
> Shige Song <shigesong <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I want to fit a two-level cross-classified random effect poisson model
> > using LME4. However, the documentation for this pacakge seems really
> > thin. I have the NLME book, but there is not much about mixed
> > generalized linear models. Any suggestions about where I should begin?
> 
> lme4 is work in progress, so documentation is still a bit limited. You may try
> Douglas Bates' article
> 
> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2005-1.pdf
> 
> to give you a starter to understand the syntax.
> 
> Dieter
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There are several worked examples (and will soon be more) of lmer
usage in the mlmRev package.  Also see the vignette in that package.

As Dieter kindly mentioned this is a work in progress.  The
documentation will ultimately be in the form of a book with the
working title "Multilevel Modeling in R".