[R-sig-ME] question about random coefficients model (RCM)

[Douglas Bates]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 9:52 AM, JOSE A ALEMAN <aleman at fordham.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear list users,
>
> I have a question about how to estimate the RCM described by Western (1998)
> in his article "Causal Heterogeneity in Comparative Research: A Bayesian
> Hierarchical Modeling Approach". While I know how to estimate this model in
> R via restricted maximum likelihood, I am at a loss as to how to interpret
> the results. The random coefficients are supposed to be different for each
> country, yet R provides  a standard regression-like output with a single
> coefficient for the variable with the random slope. How would I go about
> extracting the country specific information?

Can you be more specific about how you fit the model?  Just saying "in
R" is too general.

If you fit the model with lmer from the lme4 package then you may want
to look at the output from the ranef() and coef() extractors.