When estimating a treatment effect with a cluster design, you need to include varying slopes, even if the fit gives warning messages. https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/01/23/slopes/
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@statmodeling_bot I was pretty shocked by this one... I can't recall many (if any) papers in ecology including varying slopes in this kind of blocked design when there is a single observation per treatment/block combination. I myself probably have a dozen papers published with this error
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