[R-sig-ME] mixed model with non-continuous numeric response

[Daniel Ezra Johnson]

I don't think this is count data, is it???

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Reinhold Kliegl
<reinhold.kliegl at gmail.com> wrote:
> ( ...,  family="poisson")  is the most used option for count data
>
> Reinhold Kliegl
>
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Daniel Ezra Johnson
> <danielezrajohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I have survey results where the response is 1, 2, 3, or 4. These can
>> be thought of as equally-spaced points on a scale, I don't have a
>> problem with that. (They're actually more like "not at all", "some",
>> "mostly", "totally"; the subject is judging a stimulus.)
>>
>> I want to model crossed random effects for Subject and Item. Am I way
>> off base in modeling this data with a lmer(family="gaussian") model? I
>> know it's not perfect, but is it really bad? If so, what could I do
>> instead? (The error certainly wouldn't be binomial, right?)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Daniel
>>
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