after about a month of on-and-off panic about my dissertation experiment analysis (and too many marathon sessions with crappy R documentation), i now feel confident in saying that YES, i do have some pretty interesting results! i’ll be working on writing everything up for a rapidly approaching paper deadline; i’m guessing i’ll be posting bits as i work on figuring out how to say what needs to be said in the results section, and how best to describe what i think it all means.
i also have to say, what the heck did people do before the internet? i mean, here i am using open-source statistical software, doing fairly nonstandard analyses for my field. and yet, it seems like no matter what problem i encountered either with the tool or in trying to specify the model correctly, somebody else had already figured it out or written a paper on it. for example, i will definitely be citing this really fabulous journal article on generalized linear mixed models (Bolker et. al, 2009) with not one, but TWO online supplements that are equally fabulous. who knows what i would have done without having all this information at my fingertips!!
