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how to handle different light availability within the polytunnel #4

Open FrederikBaumgarten opened 1 month ago

FrederikBaumgarten commented 1 month ago

the poplar planting shades the polytunnel from the west. That means that saplings will experience different light conditions in the afternoon, e.g. saplings closer to the poplars had less light in total. Since that was obvious from the start I decided to arrange treatments in 3 blocks, so that the plants of every treatment are distributed along this light gradient. Now the questions is how this should be handled in the models. Should I add block as a random factor? fit_1<-stan_lmer(y ~ treatment*species + (1|block), data=dataset, prior_intercept=NULL, prior=NULL, prior_aux=NULL)

lizzieinvancouver commented 1 month ago

@FrederikBaumgarten This seems a good issue to leave open. I am happy to discuss it after we have basic model running -- with output -- to start with.