[R-sig-ME] replicated strip-plot design

[Antonella Plaia]

Hi everyone,
I need some help to write the right model to analyze data from a  
strip-plot design replicated over time.
These are the variables:
A: 3 level factor as row treatment,
B: 3 level factor as column treatment,
C: 2 blocks
Y: continuous response variable.
Data have been observed once a year for 17 years, together with some  
meteorological variables.
Time can be considered from two different point of views: as a count  
variable (1:17) to model the eventual additive effect over time,
but also as a random factor to take into account the effect of  
different meteorological conditions.
Therefore I have these variables too:
Year: count variable in the range 1:17,
W: a countinuous variable which summarizes weather condition.

And this is the model I have considered:

lmer(y~Year*A*B-1+(1|as.factor(Year))+(0+W|C:A)+(0+W|C:B), data=stripplot).
Is it the right one?

Thanks in advance for the help,
Antonella

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