here here. I had the wonderful benefit of sitting in a coffee shop in San Francisco with Doug listening to an excellent explanation. I only wish we could replicate that as an FAQ!
Thanks for this, Doug. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Marc Schwartz Sent: Fri 5/19/2006 7:54 PM To: Frank E Harrell Jr Cc: Douglas Bates; r-help Subject: Re: [R] lmer, p-values and all that On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 17:44 -0500, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: > Douglas Bates wrote: > > Users are often surprised and alarmed that the summary of a linear > . . . . > Doug, > > I have been needing this kind of explanation. That is very helpful. > Thank you. I do a lot with penalized MLEs for ordinary regression and > logistic models and know that getting sensible P-values is not > straightforward even in that far simpler situation. > > Frank I would like to echo Frank's comments and say "Thanks" to Doug for taking the time to provide this post. I would also like to suggest that this issue has indeed become a FAQ and would like to recommend that an addition to the main R FAQ be made (wording TBD) but along the lines of: Why are p values not displayed when using lmer()? The response could be: Doug Bates has kindly provided an extensive response in a post to the r-help list, which can be reviewed at: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-May/094765.html This might save Doug, Harold and Spencer (I am probably missing some others here) keystrokes in the future... :-) Best regards, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
