[R-sig-ME] Mixed effects model with a distance matrix as a random effect

[Steven J. Pierce]

You could also consider using a geostatistical model such as found in the
spBayes package. 

Steve 


-----Original Message-----
From: Roey Angel [mailto:angel at mpi-marburg.mpg.de] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 8:46 AM
To: r-sig-mixed-models at r-project.org
Subject: [R-sig-ME] Mixed effects model with a distance matrix as a random
effect

Hi,
I'm trying to build a mixed-effects model in which I'd like to include
either a distance matrix as a random effect.
The troubles I've had are that function lmer() in package lme4 only accepts
a data frame column as a random factor and not a distance matrix.

Is there a way around it?

Thanks in advance
Roey


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