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Mar 16, 2020 at 13:04 comment added Erik Ruzek Possibly, @BenMann. If you go Bayesian, you need to carefully consider an appropriate prior on the intercept variance. You may in fact try a few different ones, however, as you note you have a lot of data and these models may take a while. You are probably ok if you stick with REML estimation (default in lmer).
Mar 16, 2020 at 11:34 vote accept Ben Mann
Mar 16, 2020 at 11:34 comment added Ben Mann Thank for your answer, Erik. Given I have a small number of groups, would it make sense to use Bayesian packages in R, such as brms and rstanarm which, from what I understand, are better at accounting for uncertainty with small group sizes? Would the computation simply take too long?
Mar 14, 2020 at 22:27 comment added Erik Ruzek Thanks, @IsabellaGhement! I added some clarifications about REML and small numbers of clusters.
Mar 14, 2020 at 22:21 history edited Erik Ruzek CC BY-SA 4.0
Provided further information on REML and Kenward-Roger.
Mar 14, 2020 at 21:30 comment added Isabella Ghement Very nice answer, Erik! Can you elaborate a bit more on what makes the use of MLM questionable in this situation and why you recommend REML (e.g., REML deals better with a small number of cities?). Thanks!
Mar 14, 2020 at 20:21 history edited Erik Ruzek CC BY-SA 4.0
Fixed mutate code
Mar 14, 2020 at 20:04 history answered Erik Ruzek CC BY-SA 4.0