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zero-inflation beta or gamma model?

1 message · Luca Santini

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Hi Alain,

Thank you for your suggestion, I have a couple of your books but not these ones, so I cannot really access the worked out examples..
I?m curious however to know more about your opinion on the ?too many? random effects. They are a lot indeed.
The thing is that have have data from multiple populations of different species in different sites, years and months.
My response variable may change throughout the months (different seasons may show different patterns), but I?m not really interested in this variation. The example I shared was an only-intercept model but I?m actually interested in including a number of fixed effects for which I do have good hypotheses. 
Is there a specific reason why you are against using months as random effects? What else would you suggest? 
Thanks

Luca