corrRanef {qape} | R Documentation |
The function computes the corrected predicted random effects as presented in Carpenter, Goldstein and Rasbash (2003) in Section 3.2 to avoid the problem of underdispersion of residual bootstrap distributions.
corrRanef(model)
model |
lmer object. |
a list of corrected predicted random effects (of the same form as ranef(model)).
Tomasz Zadlo
Carpenter, J.R., Goldstein, H. and Rasbash, J. (2003), A novel bootstrap procedure for assessing the relationship between class size and achievement. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics), 52, 431-443.
library(lme4)
data(invData)
attach(invData)
model <- lmer(investments ~ newly_registered + ((1|NUTS2) +
((newly_registered - 1)|NUTS2) + ((newly_registered)|NUTS4)))
corrRanef(model)
detach(invData)