"Multilevel Modeling Using R" and variance estimates
Also, with regard to the lme4 package reporting standard deviations, not variances, I thought we reported both. Is mistaking the column labelled Std. Dev. for variance estimates a common problem?
For what it's worth, print.merMod prints only standard deviations by default; summary.merMod prints both SD and variance by default; this can be adjusted by the ranef.comp argument. Ben Bolker