Dear Douglas,

> I would be happy to re-institute p-values for fixed effects in the
> summary and anova methods for lmer objects using a denominator
> degrees of freedom based on the trace of the hat matrix or the rank
> of Z:X

Please do!

> if others will volunteer to respond to the "these answers are
> obviously wrong because they don't agree with <whatever> and the
> idiot who wrote this software should be thrashed to within an inch
> of his life" messages. I don't have the patience.

I would try to take up my shares of these type or questions.

Best regards, Lorenz
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Lorenz Gygax
Dr. sc. nat., postdoc

Centre for proper housing of ruminants and pigs
Swiss Federal Veterinary Office
Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon Research Station ART

Tänikon, CH-8356 Ettenhausen / Switzerland
Tel: +41 052 368 33 84
Fax: +41 052 365 11 90
lorenz.gygax@(protected)
www.art.admin.ch

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