Erin, as well as P & B can I recommend
McCullogh CE, Searle SR (2000), Generalized, Linear, and Mixed Models, Wiley I also found Data analysis using regression and multilevel/hierarchical models by Andrew Gelman and Jennifer Hill. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007. useful although it takes a Bayesian rather than EM approach. Cheers, Murray -- Dr Murray Jorgensen http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax 7 838 4155 Phone +64 7 838 4773 wk Home +64 7 825 0441 Mobile 021 1395 862 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.