[R-sig-ME] Zero random effect variance?

[David Duffy]

On Fri, 18 Oct 2013, Dave Marvin wrote:

> If that is the issue (which after looking back at my boxplot is probably 
> the case) should I still expect literally zero variance attributed to 
> the chambers?

Yes. The within-chamber intraclass correlation is -0.0835  (SE=0.0309) 
using the pairwise estimator.

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