No.
But as this is a statistical issue and not an R programming issue, it is
off topic here. Post on stats.stackexchange.com or other statistical list
and/or spend time with web tutorials.
Cheers,
Bert
Bert Gunter
"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and
sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 5:55 PM Patrick Connolly <p_conno...@slingshot.co.nz>
wrote:
> The bottom of page 276 of the "Gold Book" Modern Applied Statistics by
> Venables and Ripley, 4th edition, the last sentence states:
>
> "Random effects are set either to zero or to their BLUP values."
>
> Am I correct in inferring from that, it amounts respectively to
> removing the random term from the model, or setting it as a fixed
> effect? To get something meaningful, one needs to choose which random
> effects are relevant to the topic under study?
>
> Thank you.
>
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