Hi, I make a nested lme analysis, it is ok. The estructure is: lme(y~x,random=~1|x/animal) It is no the exactly formula, but the teoretical formula. The real formula have a new variable with x/animal group. Now I try to construct a nested lme table like the traditional anova table to presentation of the data. --------------------------------------------- | Source | SS | d.f. | MS | F | P | --------------------------------------------- a 2 1.9 0.1682 b 21 resid 657 var(resid) --------------------------------------------- Total 2222 --------------------------------------------- For balanced data it is easy to complete. I use: MSb = var(b)*n + var(resid) MSa = var(a)*bn + MSb where: var(a), var(b) and var(resid) are the variance component get by the VarCorr(m1). MSb and MSa are my questions (Mean Square). n is the number of samples in group x/animal (unbalanced) b is the number of animal in x (balanced) Howto calculate the n if it is different for each group? Exist any other easy form to present the results? Thanks Ronaldo -- Justice always prevails ... three times out of seven! -- Michael J. Wagner -- | // | \\ [*****************************][*******************] || ( ? ? ) [Ronaldo Reis J?nior ][PentiumIII-600 ] | V [UFV/DBA-Entomologia ][HD: 30 + 10 Gb ] || / \ [36571-000 Vi?osa - MG ][RAM: 128 Mb ] | /(.''`.)\ [Fone: 31-3899-2532 ][Video: SiS620-8Mb ] ||/(: :' :)\ [chrysopa at insecta.ufv.br ][Modem: Pctel-onboar] |/ (`. `'` ) \[ICQ#: 5692561 ][Kernel: 2.4.18 ] || ( `- ) [*****************************][*******************] ||| _/ \_Powered by GNU/Debian W/Sarge D+ || Lxuser#: 205366