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coding nesting in data for nlme example of Wafer data set.
2 messages · Bill Shipley, Spencer Graves
4 days later
Doug Bates made an important comment that might help you with this.
I found it via RSiteSearch("nesting in lmer"):
"http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/47423.html".
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spencer graves
Bill Shipley wrote:
I am trying to understand the proper way to encode the nesting structure for data in the context of nlme, in the specific case of individuals nested within species for which each individual is unique. I have searched through Pinheiro & Bates and also past postings, but without success. Take the Wafer data set which has 2 levels: Wafer (8 values) and Site nested within Wafer (10 values for each value of Wafer) (Pinheiro & Bates book). The data set has Sites coded as values from 1 to 8 for Wafer 1, values 1 to 8 for Wafer 2 etc. Does this mean that the SAME sites are used for each Wafer (i.e. site 1 of water 1 is the same as site 1 of wafer 2)? If different sites were chosen for each of the wafers would one have to code the sites = 1 to 8 for Wafer 1, sites = 9 to 16 for Wafer 2, and so on? In the case of individuals nested within species, each individual is unique - analogous to different sites being chosen for each wafter. Thanks. Bill Shipley [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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