[R] mcmc sampling and glmer

Ben Bolker bolker at ufl.edu
Sun Mar 14 03:29:33 CET 2010


Marie-Agnes <marie-agnes.coutellec <at> rennes.inra.fr> writes:

> Trying to test for the effect of fixed factors in a generalized linear 
> mixed model, I face the problem of mcmc not yet implemented with such 
> models.
> I would like to know if there is any equivalent procedure to that 
> applied on lme ( "lmer" followed with "mcmc sampling" and "aovlmer.fnc") ?
>

 1. Suggest you try forwarding this to r-sig-mixed-models at r-project.org
(special interest list for mixed models).
 2. Can you use MCMCglmm (in its own package, MCMCglmm) instead of glmer 
(lme4 package)?



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