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Warning message after "unscaling" predictor variable

Quick answer (1): if you get the same likelihood (or very similar,
e.g. difference < 1e-3) for both models, then it should be safe to
disregard the warning.

  (2) If you want to double-check that you're really getting equivalent
results, you can try unscaling the parameters "by hand": this is covered
in the following StackOverflow questions:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23642111/how-to-unscale-the-coefficients-from-an-lmer-model-fitted-with-a-scaled-respon/23643740#23643740

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24268031/unscale-and-uncenter-glmer-parameters

  It would take a few minutes longer than I have right now to dig in and
see what causes the warning (i.e., what combination of
correlation/difference in parameter scales is actually causing the
problem).  My offhand guess would be that it's the centering, not the
scaling, that's important here, but I could be wrong.
On 2019-05-07 5:17 p.m., Rachael Mady wrote: