Message-ID: <5CA0DDF9-C923-4A31-AD2F-6FA47626AED5@ed.ac.uk>
Date: 2018-05-04T04:50:48Z
From: Jarrod Hadfield
Subject: what units are MCMCglmm posterior means in?
In-Reply-To: <CAC395P5_jBDc0RjgeLXMX87sy_6shHMYJ_4s4KKb2345qUG8uQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
They are the log of the odds ratio as in standard logistic regression.
Cheers,
Jarrod
> On 3 May 2018, at 20:34, Adam Sloth via R-sig-mixed-models <r-sig-mixed-models at r-project.org> wrote:
>
> my question is probably amateurish but I can't seem to find the answer
> anywhere.
>
> In what metric are the MCMCglmm package's posterior means for family =
> "categorical"?
>
> I suppose that they can't be odds ratios and probabilites as my numbers are
> outside their bounds. So I'm thinking ? are they just basic regression
> coefficients conceptually equal to those obtained by lme4::glmer?
>
> Thank you!
>
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