[R-lang] mixed effect multinomial regression in R?

[Hugo Quené]

Dear List,

r-lang-request at ling.ucsd.edu wrote on 2007.11.08  21:00 :
> Does anybody know if R supports multinomial mixed effect regression? 
> (By "multinomial regression" I mean that the dependent variable is 
> categorical (not ordinal) and it has more than 2 levels, and the 
> independent variables are a hodge-podge of binary tests, numerical 
> variables, etc...)

Unfortunately I cannot provide a direct answer to this 
question, but we have solved the same problem (using R) by 
means of two-stage bootstrapping (first resampling subjects, 
then resampling observations within the resampled subjects) 
and then fixed-effects-only multinomial regression on the 
resampled observations. This sequence was replicated 250 times.

For more details see:
Nooteboom, S.G. & Quené, H. (2007). Self-monitoring and 
feedback: A new attempt to find the main cause of lexical 
bias in phonological speech errors, J. Memory and Language, 
in press.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2007.05.003

Hope this helps! With kind regards, Hugo Quené

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