RSiteSearch(lmer nested) produced 85 hits, the first of which looks
to me like it would answer your question
(http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/61571.html): Have you
tried replacing state with region:state something like the following:
lmer (y ~ black*female + (1 |
I'm trying to figure out how to use lmer to fit models with factors that
have some nesting and some non-nested groupings. For example, in this
paper:
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/parkgelmanbafumi.pdf
we have a logistic regression of survey respondents' political
