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Dear Help: I am trying to follow Professor Bates' recommendation, quoted by Professor Crawley in The R Book, p629, to determine whether I should model data using the 'plain old' lm function or the mixed model function lmer by using the syntax anova(lmModel,lmerModel). Apparently I've not understood the recommendation or the proper likelihood ratio test in question (or both) for I

Dear all, Consider a completely randomized block design (let's use data(Oats) irrespoctive of the split-plot design it was arranged in). Look: library(nlme) fit <- lme(yield ~ nitro, Oats, random = ~1|Block, method="ML") fit2 <- lm(yield ~ nitro + Block, Oats) anova(fit, fit2) gives this: Model df AIC BIC logLik Test L.Ratio p-value fit 1 4 624.3245