Message-ID: <20130827221400.GD27218@vardagsrummet>
Date: 2013-08-27T22:14:00Z
From: Hans Ekbrand
Subject: Extracting Random Effects and Variances of Each Group from the Poisson Model
In-Reply-To: <521CDB8E0200005C00025176@eden.chapinhall.org>
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 05:02:06PM -0500, Lijun Chen wrote:
> To get the predicted result for each county, I need to get the random
> effect (residuals) for each county as well as their variances. However,
> the ranef command only produce the random effect without giving the
> confidence interval / variance. I would be glad if you can let me know
> how to produce the confidence interval of these random effects so I can
> calculate their confidence intervals.
> > ranef(fit2)
Have you tried
dotplot(ranef(fit2, postVar = TRUE))
and
attr(ranef(fit2, postVar = TRUE)[[1]], "postVar")
?