[R-sig-ME] Computational speed - MCMCglmm/lmer

[Hadley Wickham]

> Forgive me for sounding grouchy but I find this whole discussion
> misguided.  Worrying about the speed of fitting a model and niceties
> of the model formulation before doing elementary checks on the data is
> putting the cart before the horse.  Why is gender coded as 0, 1 and 2?
>  Why, when there was a maximum of 90 days of monitoring, is there one
> id with 435 observations and another with 180 observations.

Especially when you look at (e.g.) subset(drink.df, id == 8396125) and
notice that drinks appear to be repeated in blocks of five.  Looks
like a data processing error - but has it also happened for other
subject?

I also wonder why the date has been removed from the data. It seems
like this would be an important covariate (St Patrick's day, match
days, birthdays, ...).  And I hope weekday isn't Monday-Friday...

Hadley

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Department of Statistics / Rice University
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