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Paper2018

A Brief Introduction to Mixed Effects Modelling and Multi-Model Inference in Ecology

Xavier A. Harrison, Lynda Donaldson, Maria Eugenia Correa-Cano, Julian Evans, David N. Fisher, Cecily E. D. Goodwin, Beth S. Robinson, David J. Hodgson & Richard Inger

A practitioner's walk-through of when a mixed-effects model is actually warranted, and the misspecifications, pseudoreplication chief among them, that make one necessary.

Level: Entry
Access: Free
Length: —
Copy: link checked 17 Sept 2026
Filed under: Regression & Modelling

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