[R-sig-ME] How to define the fixed and random effects in lmer

[FMH]

Thank you for your advice, but actually i'm looking for the scripts via lmer function in lme4 package.

Cheers
Fir



----- Original Message ----
From: "Bolker,Benjamin Michael" <bolker at ufl.edu>
To: FMH <kagba2006 at yahoo.com>; "r-sig-mixed-models at r-project.org" <r-sig-mixed-models at r-project.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 1:48:54 PM
Subject: RE: [R-sig-ME] How to define the fixed and random effects in lmer


I was running lme function on my data as shown below, in which the variables involved are:

########################################
#Pre : Precipitation
#t : time
#group : Group of precipitation
#prec: data set

lme(Pre ~ t| group, data = prec, random = ~ t| group)
#########################################

  I'm surprised this works (does it?) -- I didn't think |group was meaningful in a fixed-effects formula
specification

How could i write the scripts with lmer function with :
1. fixed effects for the intercept and slope and only random effect for the intercept is included

    lme(Pre~t, random=~1|group, data= prec)

2. fixed effects for the intercept and slope, and random effects for the intercept and slope are included


    lme(Pre~t, random=~t|group, data= prec)

3. only fixed effect for the intercept and only random effect for the intercept is included

    lme(Pre~1, random=~1|group, data= prec)

4. only fixed effects for the slope, and random effects for the intercept and slope are included

  lme(Pre~t-1, random=~1|group, data= prec)


  (I think. See if those work as expected)