[R] zero random effect sizes with binomial lmer

[Andrew Robinson]

Good observation, Daniel.  I had not picked up the different default
fitting method. 

Cheers

Andrew

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 08:59:55PM -0500, Daniel Ezra Johnson wrote:
> > From: Andrew Robinson <A.Robinson_at_ms.unimelb.edu.au>
> > Date: Mon 01 Jan 2007 - 19:19:29 GMT
> >
> > I tried an earlier version of R, on a different platform, and got quite 
> > different results. Sadly, the *earlier* results are the ones that make 
> > sense.
> 
> Andrew, I tried installing R 2.3.1, it seemed to work as you said, but I 
> realized it was because the default method was PQL instead of Laplace. 
> Switching the method to Laplace, the zero effect came back.
> 
> It seems like there's no easy way around this. I would like to compare 
> random effect sizes between different subsets of my data, but this may not 
> be possible using the current functions...
> 
> Daniel
> 
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