Hi Dr. Bolker
Thank you for responding to my post about installing an older version
of lme4. I wanted to respond to your question about why I need an
older version for my analyses.
The analysis I am running is a mixed-effects conditional logistic
regression. My colleagues and I are using these models to conduct
habitat selection analyses with wildlife telemetry data where each
telemetry point is paired with a measure of availability unique to
that point. We then difference the value of our independent variable
at the telemetry point (used) with the measure of availability for
that variable and fit a no-intercept logistic regression model to
those differences and use individual animal as a random slope effect.
We have used the following model structure: