--- Marcelo Jenny wrote:
> Could somebody please point me to the reason why a bare model with
> dummy variables does better in terms of the loglikelihood of the
> model than the respective random intercept model?
In your case the dummy model uses 8 parameters to capture the group
effects, while the random effects model only uses 1 parameter to
capture the group effect. So, it is no surprise that the dummy
model fits better.
-- Maarten
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Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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