[R] lmer4 and variable selection

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, jebyrnes wrote:

>
> Have you thought about using AIC weights?  As long as you are not considering
> models where you drop your random effects, calculating AIC values (or AICc
> values) and doing multimodel inference is one way to approach your problem.
>
> If you are fitting models with and without random effects, it gets trickier
> - see Vaida and Blanchard 2005 Biometrika.

Also if you are setting variances to zero ....

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> -Jarrett
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