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

[Marco Baroni]

Thanks, I will study your paper and see if I can come up with a 
similar analysis for my case.

Regards,

Marco



Hugo Quené wrote:
> 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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