Thanks very much Mike. It clears things up immensely now that i'm not thinking
about nesting fixed effects inside random effects, and the model and dfs make
sense.
doug
On 13 Mar 2011, at 21:04, Dunbar, Michael J. wrote:
Hi Doug
Your first model can't be right, as AM/PM is clearly a
Hi Doug
Your first model can't be right, as AM/PM is clearly a fixed effect: it has
just two levels and you are only interested in making inferences about those
two levels. So you can't have AMPM on the right of the random part of the
model. Try not to think of nesting fixed effects in random
