Calculating SE from GLMM results (using glmer{lme4})
Raldo Kruger wrote:
Hi Ben, Thanks for your help. See my responses below (~~~). Regards, Raldo
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It's also worth considering whether you are really getting reliable answers based on only 4 sites -- I would also try this with Site as a fixed effect and see whether the answers differ considerably. (I know that, philosophically, Site and Year are both random effects, and you may run into trouble with reviewers who are used to classical ANOVA
~~~ I've been using glmer, and it doesn't seem to accept a model with no random factors. Is ~~~that true, and if not, how can i write the model without a random factor so that it is ~~~accepted by glmer?
If you have a model with no random factors, then glm() should work fine (although be aware that the likelihoods/AIC values will not be directly comparable between glm() and glmer())