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Linear mixed models in Linguistics and Psychology: A Comprehensive Introduction
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Simulation chapter needs a section on the dangers of aggregation in LMMs #17

Open vasishth opened 2 years ago

vasishth commented 2 years ago

Need to show through simulation that aggregating data by items is going to cause a lot of potentially important variation from being hidden, leading to possible Type I error inflation (of course, it depends on the particular situation being simulated---maybe show a case where this doesn't happen).