Message-ID: <loom.20131108T152555-868@post.gmane.org>
Date: 2013-11-08T14:26:54Z
From: Ben Bolker
Subject: problem with interaction in lmer even after creating an "interaction variable"
a_lampei <anna.lampei-bucharova <at> uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
>
> Thank you very much,
> First, sorry for posting on wrong mailing list, I did not know that
> there exists a special one for lmer.
> Yes, there are collinearities in the data.
> Still, I would like to have the variables in one model to compare
> explained variability. Is there some option, or it is simply impossible?
> Thank you, Anna
The development version of lme4 has an (experimental) feature
that automatically removes collinear columns of the model matrix;
you could try that.
Further discussion on r-sig-mixed-models ...
Ben Bolker