between-blocks variation in intercepts estimated as zero by lmer in RB design???
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Duncan Mackay wrote:
Hello, I am having difficulty understanding why lmer is estimating the variation among intercepts of random groups (blocks) as zero in the following case:-
Negative intracluster correlation.
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