 I am a mathematician  trying to interact
with biologists.

I am working with a generalized mixed model, for  counting response
corresponding to a number of visits that
certain birds make to their nests, in a period of time (giving rise to an
offset).
One  random effect, since I have several observations coming from the same
nests.

I am trying to present a multimodel approach (Burnham and Anderson). After
reading the following phrase, I decide to ask for some help.

"First, AIC can be generalized to random-effects models, ultimately probably
in way better than given here."

What would you suggest to use as AIC in this case?
AIC? QAIC? QAIC_c?

On the other hand, using lmer or glmmMl I obtain different results  for the
AIC.
Any suggestion?
thanks for your attention
Mariela

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