[R] regression with nestedness

[Spencer Graves]

	  Have you considered "lme" in library(nlme)?  The companion book 
Pinheiro and Bates (2000) Mixed-Effects Models in S and S-Plus 
(Springer) is my favorite reference for this kind of thing.  From what I 
understand of your question, you should be able to find excellent 
answers in this book.  [You could also try "lmer" associated with the 
lme4 package.  However, many of the helper functions needed to do what 
you want are available for "lme" but not yet for "lmer";  "lmer" can do 
things that "lme" can not, but it doesn't sound like you need any of 
those extra features.  Even if you did, I would suggest you first ignore 
those issues and see what you can get from "lme".]

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Jeffrey Stratford wrote:

> Dear R-users,
> 
> I set up an experiment where I put up bluebird boxes across an
> urbanization gradient.  I monitored these boxes and at some point I
> pulled a feather from a chick and a friend used spectral properties
> (rtot, a continuous var) to index chick health.  There is an effect of
> sex that I would like to include but how would I set up a regression and
> look at the effect of urbanization (purban, a continuous var)) on
> feather properties of chicks within boxes.  
> 
> So the model should look something like rtot = sex + purban +
> (chick)clutch
> 
> Also, when I plot purban against rtot using the plot function I get
> boxplots but I would like to ignore the clutch and just plot each point.
>  I've tried type = "p" but this has no effect.  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff
> 
>  
> 
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