[R-sig-ME] extracting p values for main effects of binomial glmm

[Jonathan Baron]

I believe that this is old (although probably still useful). A more
recent account is here:

http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/library/lme4/html/pvalues.html

which comes with the lme4 package.

Jon

On 03/04/15 13:23, Tim Meehan wrote:
>Some solutions and their drawbacks are discussed here:
>
>http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/22988/significant-effect-in-lme4-mixed-model
>
>On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Megan Kutzer <makutzer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm fairly new to mixed models and have done a lot of reading without much
>> success. Unfortunately there is no one at my institution who is really
>> familiar with them so I thought I would try this list.
>>
>> I'm running a binomial generalized linear mixed effects model and I need
>> p-values for the main effects. I know this isn't entirely correct with this
>> type of model but my supervisor wants the p-values!
>>
>> The model is:
>>
>> glmer (Proportion hatched ~ Diet * Infection status * Day + (1|SubjectID) +
>> (1|Day), family=binomial)
>>
>> where,
>>
>> Proportion hatched = cbind(Offspring, Eggs-Offspring)
>> Diet is a factor with 2 levels
>> Infection status is a factor with 4 levels
>> Day is a factor with 3 levels
>>
>> Using Subject ID number and Day as random effects is supposed to control
>> for pseudoreplication in the model, although I am not entirely sure that
>> this is specified in the correct way. I wanted to include experimental
>> replicate here too but the model failed to converge.
>>
>> My question is: is there a way to get p-values for the main fixed effects
>> of Diet, Infection and Day?
>>
>> If you need more specific model information or the model output I would be
>> happy to provide it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Megan
>>
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