Thank you very much for answering, I have just tried it and these are the results:
> random.model<-glmer(sex~hwp+hcp+(1|colony),family=binomial) Mensajes de aviso perdidos glm.fit: fitted probabilities numerically 0 or 1 occurred > no.random.model<-glm(sex~hwp+hcp,family=binomial) Mensajes de aviso perdidos glm.fit: fitted probabilities numerically 0 or 1 occurred > anova(no.random.model,random.model,test="Chisq") Analysis of Deviance Table Model: binomial, link: logit Response: sex Terms added sequentially (first to last) Df Deviance Resid. Df Resid. Dev P(>|Chi|) NULL 425 581.51 hwp 1 33.578 424 547.93 6.846e-09 *** hcp 1 231.266 423 316.66 < 2.2e-16 *** --- Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1 > AIC(no.random.model,random.model) df AIC no.random.model 3 322.6621 random.model 4 324.5072 I believe that the warning message arises from the fact that males have almost all the values of "hcp" higher than zero and females tend to have "zero" for that variable. The anova procedure to compare models doesn't seem to work I would like, in fact it seem that it is giving me the anova(model), i.e. the values of intercept, slopes and their p values. Even though, AIC() gives me two different values, I guess I could use them to make this comparation. I am worried about the algorithms beyond these two procedures (glm and glmer) because if they calculate the likelihood in a different way they would not be comparable neither the values of AIC. Any other commentary/suggestion on this? Thanks Simone -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/comparing-mixed-binomial-model-against-the-same-model-without-random-effect-tp3832891p3840963.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.