title: High GLMER dispersion parameters
body: <p>I am running a glmer with a random effect for count data (x) and two categorical variables (y and z):</p>
  
  <pre><code>    fullmodel&lt;-glmer(x~y*z + (1|Replicate), family = poisson, data = Data)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, when I look at the dispersion parameter:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &gt; dispersion_glmer(fullmodel)
  [1] 2.338742
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It is way higher than 1. Does this mean my model is over dispersed? How do I correct it. I want to keep my random effect but when I tried to swap the family to quasipoisson it says you can't use it for a glmer</p>