> I'm a phd student from The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
> Brazil in Marine Biology. First it's a pleasure to to send you a message.
The reason
> for it is that I'm using glmmADMB package for run my analyses and I
> have some doubts. In a simple way I have the following model:
> sectors a fixed factor; sites (nested in sectors, random), points
> (nested in sites, random). So:
>
> teste1<- glmmadmb(total ~ sector + (1 | sector/site/point),...
>
> # why  did the result gave me the effect of the factor sector alone,
> also in the random effects...? since the random effect included
> only the nested factors and must include only the effects of
> sector/site and sector/site/point
>
> # but if I try:
>
> teste1<- glmmadmb(total ~ set + (1 | site/point),...
>
> # I get that result, but I think that with this path, site/point
> were not nested within sector
>
> # in another ocasion it is correct to code only random effects like:
> model<- glmmadmb(log(total+1) ~ 1, random= ~ 1 | set/loc/pon,
family=......

> # whatever the case, I thank for all your attention
>
>  # Best regards Carlos Barboza

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