On 13-09-12 03:06 PM, Benjamin Chabot-Hanowell wrote:
BACKGROUND Hello, Dr. Bolker. In the R-Sig-ME discussion below, you describe how to construct crude standard errors for predictions of GLMMS from lmer and glmmadmb. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mixed-models/2011q2/016356.html You referenced the wiki below in stating that you could simply add in the among-group variance to the fixed effects variance. http://glmm.wikidot.com/faq QUESTION Is this still the case for a model from a binomial family with a logit link function?
I prefer not to answer questions like this offline, so I'm cc'ing back to r-sig-mixed-models. To the extent that we are willing to assume that the error structure on the logit scale is Normally distributed, and that we are not worried about ignoring the uncertainty in the random effects parameters (i.e. we are conditioning on the estimates of RE variance-covariance matrices), if you do this procedure on the link (logit) scale and inverse-link-transform the resulting confidence intervals, I would think you would get reasonable answers. You might want to do a quick check against the results of bootMer() ... As always, corrections/caveats welcome from the rest of the community. Ben Bolker