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 …
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.
