[R-sig-ME] lme4, lme4a, and overdispersed distributions (again)

[David Duffy]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Jeffrey Evans wrote:

> What do you think of the suggestion that a beta-binomial mixture
> distribution could be used to model overdispersed binomial data?
>
> Would this be a techinically correct and logistically feasible solution?

If you have a relatively simple setup for the random effects, then the 
nonparametric ML models can be used for overdispersed data: these allow an 
arbitrary distribution for the random effects (as a mixture of 
distributions).  See the npmlreg package.

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