> The current reviewer wants us to show HAMD effect with scatter charts and Episode effect with bar charts.
Unlike in a simple model, scatter plots are not really revealing in this case within an LME framework for two reasons:
1) The involvement of a few covariates make the associations quite complicated.
2) Under a multilevel (or mixed-effects) model, the difficulty of visually presenting the hierarchical data structure in a practically revealing manner becomes overwhelming in illustrating the data stratification across subjects. See an example below:
[
doingbayesiandataanalysis.blogspot.com]
Gang
