Non-rigorous is perfect ;) Thanks to all for the suggestions so far, these look great. I printed off the papers and checked out Ben's book and will try to look through soon.
Jake

> To: r-sig-mixed-models@r-project.org
> From: bbolker@gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 17:17:59 +0000
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-ME] citable references for profile likelihood CIs
> 
> Jake Westfall <jake987722@...> writes:
> 
> > 
> > Hello list,
>  
> > I am writing up the results from an analysis involving mixed models,
> > and I am considering including the profile likelihood confidence
> > intervals (as computed by confint.merMod() in lme4 package) for all
> > parameter estimates in the manuscript. Does anyone have suggestions
> > for good references I can cite that explain basically how it works
> > and why profile CIs are a Good Thing? All justificationary purposes
> > aside, I would actually be interested in reading some of these
> > myself.
> 
> If you're writing for a sufficiently naive audience (e.g. typical
> ecologists), I will be bold enough to suggest Chapter 6 of Bolker 2008
> (_Ecological Models and Data in R_) ... not very rigorous though
> (and not available online via university libraries).
> 
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