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Variance explained by random factor

Fanatstic.  Thanks such a lot for that command.
The
'ldL2' = 2.178613e-11
'usqr' = 0

Is it not strange though that the test to see if sig difference between glm and glmm is so highly significant?

 as.numeric(2*(logLik(mixed)-logLik(ma)))
#99.16136
pchisq(99.16136,1,lower=FALSE)
#2.327441e-23  so should use a GLMM

-----Original Message-----
From: dmbates at gmail.com [mailto:dmbates at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Douglas Bates
Sent: 14 August 2008 10:44
To: Renwick, A. R.
Cc: Ken Beath; r-sig-mixed-models at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-sig-ME] Variance explained by random factor
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Renwick, A. R. <a.renwick at abdn.ac.uk> wrote:
In that case it could be that the deviance or log-likelihood is not being evaluated correctly in glmer.  Look at the slot named 'deviance'
in the lmer fit.  It should be a named numeric vector.  The names of interest are 'disc', the discrepancy for the generalized linear models (this is the deviance without the compensation for the null deviance), 'ldL2', the logarithm of the square of the determinant of the Cholesky factor of a second-order term, and usqr, the squared length of the transformed random effects.  For a mixed-effects model in which the variance of the random effects is estimated as zero, both 'ldL2' and 'usqr' should be zero.

You can check these values in

mixed at deviance
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