[R] Simulate binary data for a logistic regression Monte Carlo

[Ben Bolker]

Rolf Turner-3 wrote:
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> On 8/04/2009, at 1:27 PM, Ben Bolker wrote:
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>> I agree that that the individual-level random effect is probably  
>> the issue.
>> I played with this some today but didn't manage to resolve it --
>> tried JAGS/R2jags and glmer from lme4 but didn't manage to
>> get an estimate of epsilon that matched the input value.  I'm
>> a little worried about binary data with an underlying random
>> effect, I think there's an identifiability problem there ...
> 
> 	Oh dear.  This is getting hairier than I expected ... and a bit
> 	over my head.  The toy model proposed *looks* simple enough at
> 	first blush.  I would've thought that if a model which is that
> 	simple doesn't ``work'', then what hope is there for the more
> 	complicated models that one needs for analyzing real data?
> 
> 

  I don't think this is impossible, but it's a bit subtle, and might
be worth taking up on r-sig-mixed-models instead ...

  Ben

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