rfortunes: It's not meant for sampling weights. It's meant for precision weights. How best to include sampling weights in mixed models is a research problem at the moment, but you can rely on getting the wrong answer if you just use the weights= argument. -- Thomas Lumley (in reponse to a question about specifying sampling weights in lme4) R-help (January 2012) #Rstats

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It's not meant for sampling weights. It's meant for precision weights. How best to include sampling weights in mixed models is a research problem at the moment, but you can rely on getting the wrong answer if you just use the weights= argument.
-- Thomas Lumley (in reponse to a question about specifying sampling weights in lme4)
R-help (January 2012) #Rstats