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vasishth / Freq_CogSci

Linear mixed models in Linguistics and Psychology: A Comprehensive Introduction
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ch 3: Need to explain fixed effects and random effects terminology #19

Open vasishth opened 2 years ago

vasishth commented 2 years ago

The student needs to know that we are generalizing beyond the subjects (and items) by treating them as random effects. If we treated subject (item) as fixed effect, we can no longer generalize beyond the specific subjects (items).