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2012 May 08
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mgcv: inclusion of random intercept in model - based on p-value of smooth or anova?
...82 Can I interpret this as there being no support for a random intercept for country? However, when I compare the simpler model to the model including the random intercept, the latter appears to be a significant improvement. > anova(gam1,gam2,test="F") Model 1: .... Model 2: .... + s(BirthNation, bs="re") Resid. Df Resid. Dev Df Deviance F Pr(>F) 1 789.44 416.54 2 753.15 373.54 36.292 43.003 2.3891 1.225e-05 *** I hope somebody could help me in how I should proceed in these situations. Do I include the random intercept or not? I also have a rela...