Re: [R] Difficulties in trying to do a mixed effects model using the lmer function

Please post this on the r-sig-mixed-models list, not here. You are waayyy more likely to get useful help there. Also this is primarily a statistics, not an R issue. You may wish to consider consulting with your local statistician to help you understand the statistics. Cheers, Bert On Wed, Oct 3

[R] Difficulties in trying to do a mixed effects model using the lmer function

Dear people of the help list I am drying to analyze my data using the 'lmer' function and I keep having problems. This is the model: > fm1<-lmer(dbh~spec+scheme+(1|Plot),data=d, REML=FALSE). I analyse tree size (dbh) of 3 different species (spec) and 3 planting schemes (scheme). I have 5 plo