P values in summary tables from lmer objects

Dear all,

It seems that the newest version of lme4 (0.999999-0) now provides P values in the summary tables.
Given the many previous discussions about the derivation of P values in lmer, I was just wondering
how "safe" it would now be to use these values (and how they?re calculated). I guess they?re just
taken internally from a call to glm?

Example:

##
gm1 <- glmer(cbind(incidence, size - incidence) ~ period + (1 | herd),
              family = binomial, data = cbpp)
summary(gm1)
coef(summary(gm1))

##

Many thanks,
Christoph


[running R 2.15.1 on Windows 7 32-Bit]

PD Dr Christoph Scherber
Georg-August University Goettingen
Department of Crop Science
Agroecology
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