[R] Walds Z in a mixed model

I recently reviewed a paper that used Wald's Z in a mixed model analysis. The dataset (see end of message for complete dataset) has individual animals (SAMPLE) from within social groups, from within geographic regions. Y is the response variable. The paper ran a mixed model with year and region

[R] Nested ANOVA models in R

Hi, I'm trying to work through a Nested ANOVA for the following scenario: 20 males were used to fertilize eggs of 4 females per male, so that female is nested within male (80 females used total). Spine length was measured on 11 offspring per family, resulting in 880 measurements on 80 families