Dear Jarrod,

Thanks very much for your response and for the explanation of the problems
with DIC and non-Gaussian hierarchical models. Can you suggest any other
methods for model selection in this context?

Many thanks,
Theoni


On 6 January 2013 16:00, Jarrod Hadfield <j.hadfield@ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear Theoni,
>
> I'm not familiar with MuMIn so can't comment on the error. However, I
> would not advocate DIC for model comparison; see: https://stat.ethz.ch/**
> pipermail/r-sig-mixed-models/**2012q2/018096.html<https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mixed-models/2012q2/018096.html>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jarrod
>
>
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