[R-sig-ME] random effects coefficients

[Daniel Ezra Johnson]

Cornelia,

And don't call them estimates!

D

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Luca Borger <lborger at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> have a look at these slides by Douglas Bates on mixed effects models:
>
> http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/slides/
>
> e.g.
> http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/slides/2009-07-07-Rennes/4Theory-4.pdf
>
> perhaps you might find them useful.
>
>
>
> HTH
>
> Cheers,
>
> Luca
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cornelia Oedekoven" <cornelia at mcs.st-and.ac.uk>
> To: r-sig-mixed-models at r-project.org
> Sent: Tuesday, 24 November, 2009 08:48:51 GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [R-sig-ME] random effects coefficients
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using the glmer function from the lme4 library to fit mixed-effect
> models to my data. When using the ranef function I can extract the
> random effect coefficients from the model. What I would like to know is
> how these are estimated. What is the algebra involved in getting these
> estimates?
>
> Thank you very much. Cheers, Cornelia
>
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