Interpreting the output of summary(glmer(...)) in R - r

I'm an R noob, I hope you can help me:
I'm trying to analyse a dataset in R, but I'm not sure how to interpret the output of summary(glmer(...)) and the documentation isn't a big help:
> data_chosen_stim<-glmer(open_chosen_stim~closed_chosen_stim+day+(1|ID),family=binomial,data=chosenMovement)
> summary(data_chosen_stim)
Generalized linear mixed model fit by maximum likelihood (Laplace Approximation) ['glmerMod']
Family: binomial ( logit )
Formula: open_chosen_stim ~ closed_chosen_stim + day + (1 | ID)
Data: chosenMovement
AIC BIC logLik deviance df.resid
96.7 105.5 -44.4 88.7 62
Scaled residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-1.4062 -1.0749 0.7111 0.8787 1.0223
Random effects:
Groups Name Variance Std.Dev.
ID (Intercept) 0 0
Number of obs: 66, groups: ID, 35
Fixed effects:
Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)
(Intercept) 0.4511 0.8715 0.518 0.605
closed_chosen_stim2 0.4783 0.5047 0.948 0.343
day -0.2476 0.5060 -0.489 0.625
Correlation of Fixed Effects:
(Intr) cls__2
clsd_chsn_2 -0.347
day -0.916 0.077
I understand the GLM behind it, but I can't see the weights of the independent variables and their error bounds.

update: weights.merMod already has a type argument ...
I think what you're looking for weights(object,type="working").
I believe these are the diagonal elements of W in your notation?
Here's a trivial example that matches up the results of glm and glmer (since the random effect is bogus and gets an estimated variance of zero, the fixed effects, weights, etc etc converges to the same value).
Note that the weights() accessor returns the prior weights by default (these are all equal to 1 for the example below).
Example (from ?glm):
d.AD <- data.frame(treatment=gl(3,3),
outcome=gl(3,1,9),
counts=c(18,17,15,20,10,20,25,13,12))
glm.D93 <- glm(counts ~ outcome + treatment, family = poisson(),
data=d.AD)
library(lme4)
d.AD$f <- 1 ## dummy grouping variable
glmer.D93 <- glmer(counts ~ outcome + treatment + (1|f),
family = poisson(),
data=d.AD,
control=glmerControl(check.nlev.gtr.1="ignore"))
Fixed effects and weights are the same:
all.equal(fixef(glmer.D93),coef(glm.D93)) ## TRUE
all.equal(unname(weights(glm.D93,type="working")),
weights(glmer.D93,type="working"),
tol=1e-7) ## TRUE

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Interpretation of an lmer output

I'm new here, I've tried to run a lmer model:
lmer = lmer(RI ~ SET + LOG_VP + (1|API) + (1|ODOUR), data = a)
Could someone help me interpret the output?
Linear mixed model fit by REML ['lmerMod']
Formula: RI ~ SET + LOG_VP + (1 | API) + (1 | ODOUR)
Data: a
REML criterion at convergence: -349.9
Scaled residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-2.6167 -0.4719 -0.0357 0.5053 8.4850
Random effects:
Groups Name Variance Std.Dev.
API (Intercept) 0.01431 0.11964
ODOUR (Intercept) 0.00415 0.06442
Residual 0.00778 0.08820
Number of obs: 238, groups: API, 34; ODOUR, 14
Fixed effects:
Estimate Std. Error t value
(Intercept) 0.15716 0.08792 1.787
SET 0.08180 0.05490 1.490
LOG_VP 0.03527 0.01968 1.792
Correlation of Fixed Effects:
(Intr) SET
SET -0.950
LOG_VP 0.083 -0.049
Thank you!
It depends on what your research question is, but
the response when both fixed effects are zero is is 0.15716
a 1 unit change in SET is associated with a 0.08180 change in RI
a 1 unit change in LOG_VP is associated with a 0.03527 change in RI
Variance at the API level is 0.01431
Variance at the ODOUR level is 0.00415
Residual (unit level) variance is 0.00778

R: Plotting Mixed Effect models plot results

I am working on linguistic data and try to investigate the realisation of the vowel in words such as NURSE. There are more less 3 categories that can be realised, which I coded as <Er, Ir, Vr>. I then measured Formant values (F1 and F2). Then I created an LME that predicts the F1 and F2 values with different fixed and random effects but the main effect is a cross random effect of phoneme (i.e. <Er, Ir, Vr>) and individual. An example model can be found below.
Linear mixed model fit by REML ['lmerMod']
Formula:
F2 ~ (phoneme | individual) + (1 | word) + age + frequency +
(1 | zduration)
Data: nurse_female
REML criterion at convergence: 654.4
Scaled residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-2.09203 -0.20332 0.03263 0.25273 1.37056
Random effects:
Groups Name Variance Std.Dev. Corr
zduration (Intercept) 0.27779 0.5271
word (Intercept) 0.04488 0.2118
individual (Intercept) 0.34181 0.5846
phonemeIr 0.54227 0.7364 -0.82
phonemeVr 1.52090 1.2332 -0.93 0.91
Residual 0.06326 0.2515
Number of obs: 334, groups:
zduration, 280; word, 116; individual, 23
Fixed effects:
Estimate Std. Error t value
(Intercept) 1.79167 0.32138 5.575
age -0.01596 0.00508 -3.142
frequencylow -0.37587 0.18560 -2.025
frequencymid -1.18901 0.27738 -4.286
frequencyvery high -0.68365 0.26564 -2.574
Correlation of Fixed Effects:
(Intr) age frqncyl frqncym
age -0.811
frequencylw -0.531 -0.013
frequencymd -0.333 -0.006 0.589
frqncyvryhg -0.356 0.000 0.627 0.389
The question is now, how would I go about plotting the mean F2 values for each individual and for each of 3 variants <Er, Ir, Vr>?
I tried plotting the random effects as a caterpillar plot and get the following, but I am not sure, if this is accurate or does what I want. If what I have done Is right, are there any other better ways of plotting it?
ranefs_nurse_female_F2 <- ranef(nurse_female_F2.lmer8_2)
dotplot(ranefs_nurse_female_F2)

Generalized least squares results interpretation

I checked my linear regression model (WMAN = Species, WDNE = sea surface temp) and found auto-correlation so instead, I am trying generalized least squares with the following script;
library(nlme)
modelwa <- gls(WMAN ~WDNE, data=dat,
correlation = corAR1(form=~MONTH),
na.action=na.omit)
summary(modelwa)
I compared both models;
> library(MuMIn)
> model.sel(modelw,modelwa)
Model selection table
(Intrc) WDNE class na.action correlation df logLik AICc delta
modelwa 31.50 0.1874 gls na.omit crAR1(MONTH) 4 -610.461 1229.2 0.00
modelw 11.31 0.7974 lm na.excl 3 -658.741 1323.7 94.44
weight
modelwa 1
modelw 0
Abbreviations:
na.action: na.excl = ‘na.exclude’
correlation: crAR1(MONTH) = ‘corAR1(~MONTH)’
Models ranked by AICc(x)
I believe the results suggest I should use gls as the AIC is lower.
My problem is, I have been reporting F-value/R²/p-value, but the output from the gls does not have these?
I would be very grateful if someone could assist me in interpreting these results?
> summary(modelwa)
Generalized least squares fit by REML
Model: WMAN ~ WDNE
Data: mp2017.dat
AIC BIC logLik
1228.923 1240.661 -610.4614
Correlation Structure: ARMA(1,0)
Formula: ~MONTH
Parameter estimate(s):
Phi1
0.4809973
Coefficients:
Value Std.Error t-value p-value
(Intercept) 31.496911 8.052339 3.911524 0.0001
WDNE 0.187419 0.091495 2.048401 0.0424
Correlation:
(Intr)
WDNE -0.339
Standardized residuals:
Min Q1 Med Q3 Max
-2.023362 -1.606329 -1.210127 1.427247 3.567186
Residual standard error: 18.85341
Degrees of freedom: 141 total; 139 residual
>
I have now overcome the problem of auto-correlation so I can use lm()
Add lag1 of residual as an X variable to the original model. This can be done using the slide function in DataCombine package.
library(DataCombine)
econ_data <- data.frame(economics, resid_mod1=lmMod$residuals)
econ_data_1 <- slide(econ_data, Var="resid_mod1",
NewVar = "lag1", slideBy = -1)
econ_data_2 <- na.omit(econ_data_1)
lmMod2 <- lm(pce ~ pop + lag1, data=econ_data_2)
This script can be found here

Colnames error after running Summary() in mixed model

R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10)
lmer package version 1.1-6
lmerTest package version 2.0-6
I am currently working with lmer and lmerTest for my analysis.
Every time I add an effect to the random structure, I get the following error when running summary():
#Fitting a mixed model:
TRT5ToVerb.lmer3 = lmer(TRT5ToVerb ~ Group + Condition + (1+Condition|Participant) + (1|Trial), data=AllData, REML=FALSE, na.action=na.omit)
summary(TRT5ToVerb.lmer3)
Error in `colnames<-`(`*tmp*`, value = c("Estimate", "Std. Error", "df", : length of 'dimnames' [2] not equal to array extent
If I leave the structure like this:
TRT5ToVerb.lmer2 = lmer(TRT5ToVerb ~ Group + Condition + (1|Participant) + (1|Trial), data=AllData, REML=FALSE, na.action=na.omit)
there is no error run summary(TRT5ToVerb.lmer2), returning AIC, BIC, logLik deviance, estimates of the random effects, estimates of the fixed effects and their corresponding p-values, etc., etc.
So, apparently something happens when I run lmerTest, despite the fact that the object TRT5ToVerb.lmer3 is there. The only difference between both is the random structure: (1+Condition|Participant) vs. (1|Participant)
Some characteristics of my data:
Both Condition and Group are categorical variables: Condition
comprises 3 levels, and Group 2
The dependent variable (TRT5ToVerb) is continuous: it corresponds to
reading time in terms of ms
This a repeated measures experiment, with 48 observations per
participant (participants=28)
I read this threat, but I cannot see a clear solution. Will it be that I have to transform my dataframe to long format?
And if so, then how do I work with that in lmer?
I hope it is not that.
Thanks!
Disclaimer: I am neither an expert in R, nor in statistics, so please, have some patience.
(Should be a comment, but too long/code formatting etc.)
This fake example seems to work fine with lmerTest 2.0-6 and a development version of lme4 (1.1-8; but I wouldn't expect there to be any relevant differences from 1.1-6 for this example ...)
AllData <- expand.grid(Condition=factor(1:3),Group=factor(1:2),
Participant=1:28,Trial=1:8)
form <- TRT5ToVerb ~ Group + Condition + (1+Condition|Participant) + (1|Trial)
library(lme4)
set.seed(101)
AllData$TRT5ToVerb <- simulate(form[-2],
newdata=AllData,
family=gaussian,
newparam=list(theta=rep(1,7),sigma=1,beta=rep(0,4)))[[1]]
library(lmerTest)
lmer3 <- lmer(form,data=AllData,REML=FALSE)
summary(lmer3)
Produces:
Linear mixed model fit by maximum likelihood ['merModLmerTest']
Formula: TRT5ToVerb ~ Group + Condition + (1 + Condition | Participant) +
(1 | Trial)
Data: AllData
AIC BIC logLik deviance df.resid
4073.6 4136.0 -2024.8 4049.6 1332
Scaled residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-2.97773 -0.65923 0.02319 0.66454 2.98854
Random effects:
Groups Name Variance Std.Dev. Corr
Participant (Intercept) 0.8546 0.9245
Condition2 1.3596 1.1660 0.58
Condition3 3.3558 1.8319 0.44 0.82
Trial (Intercept) 0.9978 0.9989
Residual 0.9662 0.9829
Number of obs: 1344, groups: Participant, 28; Trial, 8
Fixed effects:
Estimate Std. Error df t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 0.49867 0.39764 12.40000 1.254 0.233
Group2 0.03002 0.05362 1252.90000 0.560 0.576
Condition2 -0.03777 0.22994 28.00000 -0.164 0.871
Condition3 -0.27796 0.35237 28.00000 -0.789 0.437
Correlation of Fixed Effects:
(Intr) Group2 Cndtn2
Group2 -0.067
Condition2 0.220 0.000
Condition3 0.172 0.000 0.794

predict() in lmer regression, but I need it only 2 categories

I am attempting to estimate a multilevel model. My code is:
fullModel2 <- lmer(pharmexp_2001 ~ gdp_1000_gm + health_exp_per_cap_1000_gm + life_exp +
labour_cost_1000_gm + (year_gm|lowerID), data=adat, REML=F)
which results in the following model:
Linear mixed model fit by maximum likelihood ['lmerMod']
Formula: pharmexp_2001 ~ gdp_1000_gm + health_exp_per_cap_1000_gm + life_exp +
labour_cost_1000_gm + (year_gm | lowerID)
Data: adat
AIC BIC logLik deviance df.resid
1830.2 1859.9 -906.1 1812.2 191
Scaled residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-2.5360 -0.6853 -0.0842 0.4923 4.0051
Random effects:
Groups Name Variance Std.Dev. Corr
lowerID (Intercept) 134.6851 11.6054
year_gm 0.4214 0.6492 -1.00
Residual 487.5324 22.0801
Number of obs: 200, groups: lowerID, 2
Fixed effects:
Estimate Std. Error t value
(Intercept) -563.7924 75.4125 -7.476
gdp_1000_gm -0.9050 0.2051 -4.413
health_exp_per_cap_1000_gm 37.5394 6.3943 5.871
life_exp 8.8571 0.9498 9.326
labour_cost_1000_gm -1.3573 0.4684 -2.898
Correlation of Fixed Effects:
(Intr) g_1000 h____1 lif_xp
gdp_1000_gm -0.068
hl____1000_ 0.374 -0.254
life_exp -0.996 0.072 -0.393
lbr_c_1000_ -0.133 -0.139 -0.802 0.142
I know that it's a problem that the correlation is -1 by random effects, but I have a bigger problem. I have to plot my results, but only I need 2 lines: when lowerID=0 and when lowerID=1. So I want to plot pharmaexp_2001 on the y-axis against year on the x-axis, but I need only 2 lines (by lowerID). I know that I have to use predict.merMod, but how can I plot these results, plotting only these two lines? Currently my plot has 21 lines (because I analyse pharmaceutical expenditure in 21 countries).
Welcome to the site, #Eszter Takács!
You only need to specify the two IDs in newdata. Here is an example based on sleepstudy data in R. I assume you want to plot the predicted values on the y-axis. Just replace the code with your data and variables, you will obtain the predicted values for lowerID==0 and lowerID==1. Then you can use your code to plot the two lines for the two IDs.
> (fm1 <- lmer(Reaction ~ Days + (Days|Subject), sleepstudy, REML=F))
Linear mixed model fit by maximum likelihood ['lmerMod']
Formula: Reaction ~ Days + (Days | Subject)
Data: sleepstudy
AIC BIC logLik deviance
1763.9393 1783.0971 -875.9697 1751.9393
Random effects:
Groups Name Std.Dev. Corr
Subject (Intercept) 23.781
Days 5.717 0.08
Residual 25.592
Number of obs: 180, groups: Subject, 18
Fixed Effects:
(Intercept) Days
251.41 10.47
> newdata = sleepstudy[sleepstudy$Subject==308 | sleepstudy$Subject==333,]
> str(p <- predict(fm1,newdata)) # new data, all RE
Named num [1:20] 254 274 293 313 332 ...
- attr(*, "names")= chr [1:20] "1" "2" "3" "4" ...

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