Today I presented influence.ME at the useR! conference in Rennes. Influence.ME is an R package for detecting influential data in mixed models. I developed this package together with Ben Pelzer and Manfred te Grotenhuis.
More information about influence.ME can be found on another section of my website.
Below, please find the slides of the presentation.
Presentation Influence.ME at Rennes, useR! 2009
Douglas Bates excelled during my first tutorial session of the useR! 2008 conference. He gave a three hours talk on mixed models, in which he was able to give an overview on theory and basic specification of these kind of models in R-Project, and to address highly advanced and avant-garde issues as well. I’m impressed. During the brake he was so kind as to answer a question regarding mixed models, that had nothing much to do with what he addressed during his talk. We even ended up having a short but nice talk about dutch politics.
During what was basically his introduction, he gave a nice guideline regarding a discussion that we have been having at our own university. It is the discussion on what instances we can apply mixed models to grouped data, and in what cases we can’t. … Continue Reading