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R: Re: GLMM family=binomial, link identity

On 13-02-26 05:57 PM, maggenga at libero.it wrote:
[cc'ing back to r-sig-mixed-models: it's best to keep these
conversations on-list]

  It's hard to say without a reproducible example
<http://tinyurl.com/reproducible-000>.  I made up an example that seemed
to work, sort of -- at least it showed that I do *not* get the same
results.  With the stable version of lme4, the fit worked with the
default (logit) link and failed with the identity link (although
apparently for reasons of numerical instability, not because it's
impossible to fit such models).  With the development version (latest
version from github), both worked, and the identity link results seem to
have correctly estimated the parameters (I can tell because the data
were simulated).

See

http://rpubs.com/bbolker/4671