You have Horizon
as both a fixed effect and a random effect. That's almost always not a good idea. It should be either fixed or random, and there are a bunch of competing considerations for when to include things as random such as:
- when we don't care about the fixed effect of a factor
- when a factor has a large number of levels
- when we have sampled from larger population of levels
- when we want to generalise the inferences to other levels of the factor that were not in our sample
The reasons for treating a factor as fixed are:
- when the research question specifically concerns inference for that factor
- when the factor has a relatively few number of levels
- when we have the entire population of levels for that factor
In this case it is fairly clear that all these considerations point towards modelling Horizon
as fixed:
- because the research question involves inference on
Horizon
- because we have only 2 levels of
Horizon
- because the 2 levellevels of
horizon
are the entire population of horizons