[R-sig-ME] Residuals look "mirrored" when using lmer with imputed data

[João C P Santiago]

I'm trying to assess if a treatment had any effect on the levels of a  
hormone. To do this I need to calculate the area under the curve and  
then adjust it for sex (a known confounder) and smoking status (not  
included in the demo data below to keep things simpler).

Here's a dput of the data: https://pastebin.com/VYcQGkwb

There's some missing values, so first step is to impute them using the  
mice package, then calculate AUC and finally fit the model:

library(dplyr)
library(lme4)
library(mice)
library(zoo)

## Impute missing values
dfMids <- mice(df, m = 10, maxit = 15, seed = 2535)
dfImp  <- complete(dfMids)

## Calculate AUC
dfImpAUC <- dfImp %>%
   arrange(sampleNum) %>%
   group_by(ID, treatment) %>%
   mutate(AUC = sum(diff(sampleNum)*rollmean(value,2)))

## Fit model
fit <- lmer(AUC ~ sex * treatment + (1|ID), data = dfImpAUC)

## Plot residuals
plot(fit)  # output: https://imgur.com/a/vfL1R
qqnorm(resid(fit))



I know it's possible to fit a model to each iteration of mids model,  
but then I can't calculate the AUC, which is what I actually need. Any  
ideas why the residuals look like that?

Best
Santiago




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