[R] reading lmer table

[Mark Difford]

Hi Nicola,

>> In few word: does this row indicate a global effect of the predictor
>> 'cat' 
>> or a more specific passage?

It indicates a more specific passage.  Use anova(m7) for global/omnibus.
Check this for yourself by fitting the model with different contrasts. The
default "contrasts" in R are treatment contrasts.

##
m7 <- lmer(log.second ~ Cond + cat + (1|subjID) + (1|Code), data = march.f, 
                        contrasts=list(Cond=contr.treatment,
cat=contr.treatment))
m7s <- lmer(log.second ~ Cond + cat + (1|subjID) + (1|Code), data = march.f, 
                        contrasts=list(Cond=contr.sum, cat=contr.sum))
summary(m7)
summary(m7s)
anova(m7)
anova(m7s)

Regards, Mark.
-- 
View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/reading-lmer-table-tp2329521p2330809.html
Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.