A practical guide and power analysis for GLMMs: Detecting among treatment variation in randomeffects

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Volumn 2015, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Kain, Morgan P ^a   Bolker, Ben M ^b   McCoy, Michael W ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behavioral ecology; Binomial distribution; Hierarchical; Individual variation; Plasticity; Reaction norm; Sampling scheme

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GENERALIZED LINEAR MIXED MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POWER ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

EID: 84944897730     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1226     Document Type: Article

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