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Multilevel logistic regression guessing parameter

Hi Dominik,

In addition to the issues Phillip raised, note that adding a guessing
parameter to the model (so that it resembled what is called the 3PL model
in item response theory;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Item_response_theory#Three_parameter_logistic_model)
would make the model inherently nonlinear in the parameters. So the model
could not be fit in glmer(). And since I don't think nlmer() supports
non-Normal response families, this would mean you can't use lme4 at all. I
would recommend fitting such a model in a fully Bayesian setting using e.g.
Stan.

Jake

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 9:16 PM, Phillip Alday <Phillip.Alday at unisa.edu.au>
wrote: