[R] lme nesting/interaction advice

[Federico Calboli]

On 11 May 2008, at 22:45, Andrew Robinson wrote:
>>
>> lme(y ~ selection * males, random = ~1|replica/selection/males,  
>> mydata)
>
> forgive me, but I seem to see nesting in the random statement.   
> That is
> what happens when we separate factors with a '/'; they are nested.  We
> would expect that statement to not provide the correct df for the
> bog-standard fully crossed design.

Please read page 23/24 of the Pinheiro and Bates book, "Mixed-Effects  
Models in S and S-PLUS". It might prove enlightening.

F

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