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2009 Dec 11
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random effects in mixed model not that 'random'
...sue to the species traits and say, once the species evolved their traits were drawn randomly from a population. This however causes problems with ideas of evolution and phylogenetic relationships among the species. Maybe my question can be rephrased the following way: Does it ever make sense to _interpret_ the coefficients of the random effects for each group and link it to properties of the grouping variable? The assumption of a realization of a random variable seems to render that quite problematic. However, this means that the more ignorant I am , and the less knowledge I have, the more the ra...