Hi, I already apologize if this is a rather basic question, but I would really appreciate some advice as I am unfamiliar with the particular design issues here: I am assessing cheating during exams depending on the type of exam (online test vs. on-site test). Some of the students wrote only online exams, others only on-site exams and some did both. We assessed cheating for both types of exams, meaning that students who did both types of exams answered the cheating questions twice (for each type of exam) and others who wrote only one type answered them only once. So the data looks like this: Subject ExamType Cheating 1 online 2 1 on-site NA 2 online NA 2 on-site 1 3 online 4 3 on-site 3 ... I understood I am dealing with some sort of partially nested/partially crossed fixed effect here. My question is, is it appropriate to analyze the effect of online vs. offline testing within the same model if I just add a random intercept for the subject? So far what I came up with would look like this: Cheating ~ ExamType +(1 | Subject), data = df The model looks (too?) simple, the model converges and the obtained results look reasonable. But I cannot help the sense I may be overlooking something, as of course there is a lot of data missing by design in the dependent variable and I am not sure whether lme/lmer handles this correctly? I would be happy for some expert to comment on this or alternatively, any literatur advice on the topic. Thank you so much in advance! Best Selma
Partially nested/partially crossed structure in a mixed model
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