Xiao He
2010-Jun-10  05:04 UTC
[R] Help with Post-Hoc tests for TWO-WAY within subject ANOVA
Dear R users,
I posted a couple of questions and got no response, so I am giving it
another shot.
I ran an experiment with a TWO-WAY within subject design. A sample dataset
is in http://www-scf.usc.edu/~hex/data.txt
I already ran ANOVA by using the following formula:
aov(RT~Factor1*Factor2 + Error(Subject/(Factor1*Factor2)), data=data)
and I obtained the following information:
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Error: Subject
               Df  Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)
Residuals 19 6154709  323932
Error: Subject:Factor1
               Df  Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)
Factor1      1  131017  131017  1.2624 0.2752
Residuals 19 1971836  103781
Error: Subject:Factor2
                Df  Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)
Factor2      1   48042   48042  0.4281 0.5207
Residuals 19 2132016  112211
Error: Subject:Factor1:Factor2
                        Df  Sum Sq Mean Sq F value  Pr(>F)
Factor1:Factor2  1  500137  500137  7.3702 0.01374 *
Residuals          19 1289336   67860
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Error: Within
           Df   Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)
Residuals 560 54063256   96542
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Now my question is, what kinds of post-hoc tests can be used to examine
which of the 4 conditions generated by the 2X2 design is different. From the
research I did online, I found that TukeyHSD cannot be used because the
aov() function I used contains random effects. I also read that
pairwise.t.test adjusted with the Bonferroni method is not good either
because it assumes that the null hypothesis is not rejected, hence
overcorrecting TYPE 1 error. It would be great if someone could shed some
light on my problem. Thank you in advance!
Xiao
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