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Unable to standardize glmmADMB global model

Hmm.  Surprising/hard to diagnose.

'standardize' doesn't do anything very fancy - it standardizes the
input variables as described by ?arm::standardize and *refits* the
model (I've always been a little disappointed that it doesn't
standardize by figuring out how to transform the *parameters*, which
is straightforward in principle although it can be tricky to figure
out how to deal with input variables that lead to multiple predictor
variables, e.g. polynomials).  I'd be curious to know what's going on,
but in your place I would

(1) try standardizing by hand, e.g.

std_data <- transform(data,
      z.season.wt = scale(season.wt),
     ...)

and refit yourself.

(2) see if it happens to work with glmmTMB (a simple example does).

  Ben Bolker
On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Aoibheann Gaughran <gaughra at tcd.ie> wrote: