[R-sig-ME] New to LMER with 2 (easy?) questions...

[Rolf Turner]

On 22/05/2009, at 9:14 AM, Hank Stevens wrote:

> HI Rolf,
> The BLOCK numbers should reflect their "true" underlying nature.
> These data would suggest that Site and Block are crossed because e.g.
> BLOCK 1 exists at two sites:
> SITE  BLOCK
> 1    1
> 1    2
> 1    3
> 2    1
> 2    2
> 2    3
>
> These data would suggest that Blocks are unique (and therefore
> necessarily nested within Sites):
> SITE  BLOCK
> 1    1
> 1    2
> 1    3
> 2    4
> 2    5
> 2    6

That's what I thought.  But it's the opposite of what Ben Bolker said.
Unless, of course, I'm totally confused.

	cheers,

		Rolf

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