Hi Nicola, >> In few word: does this row indicate a global effect of the predictor >> 'cat' >> or a more specific passage?
It indicates a more specific passage. Use anova(m7) for global/omnibus. Check this for yourself by fitting the model with different contrasts. The default "contrasts" in R are treatment contrasts. ## m7 <- lmer(log.second ~ Cond + cat + (1|subjID) + (1|Code), data = march.f, contrasts=list(Cond=contr.treatment, cat=contr.treatment)) m7s <- lmer(log.second ~ Cond + cat + (1|subjID) + (1|Code), data = march.f, contrasts=list(Cond=contr.sum, cat=contr.sum)) summary(m7) summary(m7s) anova(m7) anova(m7s) Regards, Mark. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/reading-lmer-table-tp2329521p2330809.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.