Daniel Ezra Johnson <johnson4 <at> babel.ling.upenn.edu> writes: ... > If one compares the random effect estimates, in fact, one sees that > they are in the correct proportion, with the expected signs. They are > just approximately eight orders of magnitude too small. Is this a bug? ...
BLUPs are essentially shrinkage estimates, where shrinkage is determined with magnitude of variance. Lower variance more shrinkage towards the mean - zero in this case. So this is not a bug. Gregor ______________________________________________ [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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
