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zero-inflated models with spatial autocorrelation

1 message · Malcolm Fairbrother

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Dear Ben and Ricardo,

Can I just clarify: Are you talking about similar functionality to
that in nlme... but, per Ricardo's query, with zero-inflation?

Aside from the issue of zero-inflation, one thing that is limiting
about nlme is that it only allows for spatial autocorrelation at the
lowest level. That is, each observation has to have a unique location.
It would be great to have functionality in lme4 that allows for
observations to be nested in *groupings* that have known locations...
so the locations of two lowest-level observations need not be unique.

Just trying to reinforce Ben's gleam!

Cheers,
Malcolm