May be I can calculate p value by t testing approximately: 1-qnorm(Variance/Std.Dev.) But which function can help me to extract Variance and Std.Dev values from the results below:
>print(fm2 <- lmer(Yield ~ 1 + (1|Stand) + (1|Variety) + (1|Variety:Stand),Rice)) Linear mixed model fit by REML Formula: Yield ~ 1 + (1 | Stand) + (1 | Variety) + (1 | Variety:Stand) Data: Rice AIC BIC logLik deviance REMLdev 94.25 100.7 -42.12 85.33 84.25 Random effects: Groups Name Variance Std.Dev. Variety:Stand (Intercept) 1.345679 1.16003 Variety (Intercept) 0.024692 0.15714 Stand (Intercept) 0.888888 0.94281 Residual 0.666667 0.81650 Number of obs: 27, groups: Variety:Stand, 9; Variety, 3; Stand, 3 Fixed effects: Estimate Std. Error t value (Intercept) 7.1852 0.6919 10.38 2009/11/2 Douglas Bates <ba...@stat.wisc.edu> > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 9:01 AM, wenjun zheng <wjzhen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi R Users, > > When I use package lme4 for mixed model analysis, I can't distinguish > > the significant and insignificant variables from all random independent > > variables. > > Here is my data and result: > > Data: > > > > > > Rice<-data.frame(Yield=c(8,7,4,9,7,6,9,8,8,8,7,5,9,9,5,7,7,8,8,8,4,8,6,4,8,8,9), > > Variety=rep(rep(c("A1","A2","A3"),each=3),3), > > Stand=rep(c("B1","B2","B3"),9), > > Block=rep(1:3,each=9)) > > Rice.lmer<-lmer(Yield ~ (1|Variety) + (1|Stand) + (1|Block) + > > (1|Variety:Stand), data = Rice) > > > > Result: > > > > Linear mixed model fit by REML > > Formula: Yield ~ (1 | Variety) + (1 | Stand) + (1 | Block) + (1 | > > Variety:Stand) > > Data: Rice > > AIC BIC logLik deviance REMLdev > > 96.25 104.0 -42.12 85.33 84.25 > > Random effects: > > Groups Name Variance Std.Dev. > > Variety:Stand (Intercept) 1.345679 1.16003 > > Block (Intercept) 0.000000 0.00000 > > Stand (Intercept) 0.888889 0.94281 > > Variety (Intercept) 0.024691 0.15714 > > Residual 0.666667 0.81650 > > Number of obs: 27, groups: Variety:Stand, 9; Block, 3; Stand, 3; Variety, > 3 > > > Fixed effects: > > Estimate Std. Error t value > > (Intercept) 7.1852 0.6919 10.38 > > > Can you give me some advice for recognizing the significant variables > among > > random effects above without other calculating. > > Well, since the estimate of the variance due to Block is zero, that's > probably not one of the significant random effects. > > Why do you want to do this without other calculations? In olden days > when each model fit involved substantial calculations by hand one did > try to avoid fitting multiple models but now that is not a problem. > You can get a hint of which random effects will be significant by > looking at their precision in a "caterpillar plot" and then fit the > reduced model and use anova to compare models. See the enclosed > > > Any suggestions will be appreciated. > > Wenjun > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.