[R] lmer effects-type plot?

[Nicole Ford]

I was only just now able to investigate and give this a try (not sure how I missed it previously when I looked at the page).  It worked perfectly!  Thanks to you both.  =)


On Mar 31, 2013, at 8:28 PM, Nicole Ford wrote:

> John,
> 
> Thanks for your reply!  I will check again I must have missed it!
> 
> ~Nicole Ford
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> On Mar 31, 2013, at 7:54 PM, John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Nicole,
>> 
>> Thanks to Sandy Weisberg, who is a coauthor of the package, the effects
>> package has methods for objects produced by lme() in the nlme package and
>> lmer() and glmer() in the lme4 package, to plot the fixed effects. See
>> ?effect.
>> 
>> I hope this helps,
>> John
>> 
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>>> Subject: [R] lmer effects-type plot?
>>> 
>>> hello, all.
>>> 
>>> while i have a mcmc running, i am looking at the frequestist method of
>>> my model.  i have never done HLM so i am looking for ways to plot them
>>> that might yeild something useful like dr. fox's effects plot package.
>>> this is my model, where dem is democracy ranked continuous 1:10, trsut
>>> is a 3 level categorical variable, cpi is 1:10, etc...
>>> 
>>>> hier.jags2.mod <- lmer(dem ~ trust*cpi + age + gender + educ + income
>>> + (1 + trust | country), data=wvsAB)
>>> 
>>> i have tried the following:
>>> 
>>>> tmp <- as.data.frame(confint(glht(.hier.jags2.mod))$confint)
>>>> tmp$Comparison <- rownames(tmp)
>>>> q<-(ggplot(tmp, aes(x = Comparison, y = Estimate, ymin = lwr, ymax =
>>> upr,  srt = 45)) + geom_errorbar() + geom_point())
>>>> q + theme(axis.text.x=theme_text(angle=-45))
>>> 
>>> as well as some function using xyplot to little avail, as well as a few
>>> others i happened upon online...
>>> 
>>> any suggestions of packages/ sample code would be helpful.
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