[R-sig-ME] Science Fair data

[Doug Adams]

That's great!  Thanks!



On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Douglas Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu> wrote:
> I'm writing a book about lme4 and lmer.  When it gets to the point
> where others can read it without too much frowning and scratching of
> heads, I will make chapter drafts available.
>
> For the time being you may find the slides from a short course given
> last summer informative.  They are at
> http://lme4.R-forge.R-project.org/slides/2009-07-21-Seewiesen/
>
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Doug Adams <fog0 at gmx.com> wrote:
>> Hi, and thanks again.  That makes sense with the 3 levels of division:
>>
>> (Intercept) divisionJunior divisionSenior
>>     80.306526      -3.252372      -2.694055
>>
>> ...so that the Junior and Senior levels are both slightly lower than
>> the Elementary level.
>>
>> I'd love to really understand the summary of lmer and what ranef,
>> fixef, coef and fitted are extracting - so that probably means I don't
>> understand the basics and nomenclature of HLMing as I thought I might
>> have.  I took a 1-week class on HLM, and I have the book you (Douglas
>> Bates) wrote...  Maybe I just need to study up on things a little
>> better!
>>
>> Anyway, I appreciate your help very much   : )
>>
>> Doug