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2007 Aug 06
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starting values for lmer fixed effects
...Is there a way to provide starting values for the fixed effects in
lmer()? I'd like to fit the following model, which requires starting
values in the glm.fit() part of the code:
lmer(dbh.sum ~ Treatment + (1|Site), nets, gaussian("log"),
subset=Treatment!="sforest" & iocTreat!="forest")
I tried tinkering with the code but I couldn't figure out the
namespace problems I ran into. I also saw an earlier R-help post with
a reply mentioning a possible lmer-initialize function that I couldn't
find. I can fit the model without the random effect using glm:
Ca...