"Multilevel Modeling Using R" and variance estimates
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Ben Bolker <bbolker at gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Thanks for the reminder. I had forgotten about the "let's cripple the print method for the sake of consistency with the rather perverse behavior of other model-fitting classes" decision. :-)