• Describing posterior distributions of variance components: Problems and the use of null distributions to aid interpretation 

      Pick, Joel; Kasper, Claudia; Allegue, Hassen; Dingemanse, Niels J.; Dochtermann, Ned A.; Laskowski, Kate L.; Lima, Marcos R.; Schielzeth, Holger; Westneat, David F.; Wright, Jonathan; Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      1. Assessing the biological relevance of variance components estimated using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)-based mixed-effects models is not straightforward. Variance estimates are constrained to be greater than zero and ...
    • Robustness of linear mixed-effects models to violations of distributional assumptions 

      Schielzeth, Holger; Dingemanse, Niels J.; Nakagawa, Shinichi; Westneat, David F.; Allegue, Hassen; Teplitsky, Céline; Réale, Denis; Dochtermann, Ned A.; Garamszegi, László Zsolt; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Linear mixed-effects models are powerful tools for analysing complex datasets with repeated or clustered observations, a common data structure in ecology and evolution. Mixed-effects models involve complex fitting procedures ...