1. Are you familiar with Pinheiro and Bates (2000) Mixed-Effects
Models in S and S-Plus (Springer)? I've learned a lot from this book
both about mixed models generally and about lme in particular -- and
even indirectly about lmer. Examples in this book would, I believe,
help you
I do have Pinheiro and Bates 2000 and went through it several times –
unfortunately without success for my particular issue. I was not aware of
the article in R news or the mlmRev package you referred to, though. I will
try with that.
The example I gave was not self-contained. Sorry, my fault.
Hi all,
I am not a very proficient R-user yet, so I hope I am not wasting peoples
time. I want to run a linear mixed model with 3 random factors (A, B, C)
where A and B are partially crossed and C is nested within B. I understand
that this is not easily possible using lme but it might be
