Dear R users,

Dealing with mixed models with a binomial DV and interactions between 
predictors, I still have a few questions I cannot find the answer to.
One of my guideline source for the lmer analysis is the Jaeger and Kuperman 
WOMM slides.

1- all but one predictor are centered, because the latter is a four level 
predictor and I am interested in contrasts. Is this correct? Thus I cannot 
interpret the intercept as the grand mean. Does the intercept has any meaning 
at all?

2- reporting interactions: as a whole and not just specific contrasts
For linear models, there is aovlmer.fnc. Is there such a function for mixed 
models?

3- residualisation
In the best model (var1 is centered, var2 is not as it is a factor), 
var1(2levels) and var2(4levels) have significant interaction and are correlated 
(-.491, -.527, -.350 for respective contrasts).
Residualisation is a possibility.
I was advised to use the following code line, but I get an error I cannot fix:

corpus$residinteraction = residuals(lm(I(var1*var2) ~ var1 + var2, data= 
corpus))

The error diagnostic is about having more than two levels for contrast analysis.


Thank you very much in advance.

Claire Delle Luche
Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage
14, avenue Berthelot
69007 Lyon FRANCE

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