I originally sent this to Doug Bates but have received no reply yet so I 
thought I would expand to a wider source.

I've been trying to estimate linear mixed effect models in lmer() from the 
lme4 package using the weights option.  The help and code for lmer() 
suggest to me that this is implemented but I can't seem to get it to do 
anything with weights = , no error message reported it just seems to 
ignore the weights option as my weighted and unweigted models are 
identical in all summary statistics.  Below is an example of my model 
code.   The weights are lengths of observational bouts on wild horse 
behavior.   So is weights not really yet implemented or am I missing 
something? 


m2.wt<- lmer(HD_RATE ~ NUM_PAIR + 
(NUM_PAIR|HMA),data=out2.5,weights=HOURS/max(HOURS), 
contrasts=list(NUM_PAIR="contr.treatment"),family=gaussian)

Brian

Brian S. Cade, PhD

U. S. Geological Survey
Fort Collins Science Center
2150 Centre Ave., Bldg. C
Fort Collins, CO  80526-8818

email:  brian_cade@usgs.gov
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