[R-sig-ME] How to analyse data with two replicates per group

[Thierry Onkelinx]

Dear Simon,

IMHO you should use individual as a random effect. If a systematic
difference between both eyes are relevant / plausible, then add a variable
coding for left or right to the fixed effect. Otherwise, don't include it
in the model.

Create a subset of the data which has no missing values in all variables
used in your full model. Fit all your models on this subset. Then you can
compare AIC.

Best regards,

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
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Op do 24 jan. 2019 om 17:30 schreef Simon POTIER <sim.potier using gmail.com>:

> Dear all,
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> I will try to be precise, do not hesitate to tell me if you need more
> details.
>
> I have a dataset measuring some features of raptors eyes (let says here eye
> size for exemple). I have measured both eyes (left and right eyes) of 47
> individuals.
> If I want to compare eye size with age and sex, what type of analysis
> should I use:
>
> 1) Should I analyse both eye separately (which can be interesting in term
> of vision)?
> 2) Can/should I analyse both eye together including Individual as a random
> effect? In other terms, I was wondering whether including individuals as
> random effect (with only two levels for each individual (left and right
> eye)) is possible?
>
> One more question, I want to compare the AIC of my models, but I get this
> error message:
> Warning message:
> In AIC.default(mm.edge, mm.edge2, mm.edge3) :
>   models are not all fitted to the same number of observations
>
> I understand that the problem come from the fact that I have some NA in
> some fixed effect. How can I deal with this please because it is not
> possible to compare AIC?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Simon Potier
>
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