Message-ID: <loom.20130718T042202-402@post.gmane.org>
Date: 2013-07-18T02:22:46Z
From: White, Emma
Subject: using weights=varIdent in lme: how to change reference level of grouping factor?
Ben Bolker <bbolker at ...> writes:
>
> I have spent some time delving through the guts of lme()
> but haven't figured it out yet. I'm somewhat baffled,
> as the default order of factor() should be Female, Male in
> any case, so I don't see where the order could be getting
> messed up.
>
>
Hi Ben,
Thanks for having a look at this.
I think lme is using the category with the largest number of observations as
the reference level.
I have no idea how to change this.
Emma