[R-sig-ME] Question regarding glmer in lme4

[Ben Bolker]

Douglas Bates <bates at ...> writes:

> 
> I suggest that you discuss this issue on the
> R-SIG-Mixed-Models at ... mailing list to which I have cc:'d
> this reply.  Several people who read that list know more about
> overdispersion than I do.
> 
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Asa Johannesen <bsaj at ...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm a PhD student using a binomial glmer model and I added an observation
level random effect to account for
> overdispersion (seeing as I can't use a quasi-family) and now my supervisor is
asking me if I have a
> reference saying this is a good way of doing that. I only have the R-help file
example, but that seems a bit
> slim. Could you perhaps point me in the right direction?
> >
> > Regards,

  
  The second bullet point in http://glmm.wikidot.com/faq#overdispersion