[R-sig-ME] Partialing out the effect of a covariable in a Poisson GLMM

[v_coudrain at voila.fr]

Ben Bolker writes: 

>Don't know exactly what you want to do, but presumably fitting
> a "null model" with the covariate and then building more complex models
> on top of this -- adding the other covariates -- and doing sequential testing
> (anova(full_model,model_with_only_first_covariate)). The linear models
> idea of partialing out one variable and running a model on the residuals
> doesn't work as well, unfortunately.

Oh yes, thank you I can do it this way. Sould I turn REML to FALSE for model comparison? 
Best,
Valérie
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