Dear R-help group, I have a two-way ANOVA with two crossed random factors, no nesting. Each factor has three levels, resulting in 9 cells for the experiment. Each cell contains 10 repetitions. According to the ANOVA model I assume equal variances for all levels per factor. I would like to get REML-estimates for the variances of the two factors and moreover get confidence intervals for these estimates, so the use of the nlme-package seems to be a good idea. My problem in the first place is to formulate the model itself for the lme-function. The fixed part would at most consist of the intercept, resulting in fixed= response ~ 1 and the random part would be random = ~ a + b but I have no idea what my gouping factor there should be. Could somebody please point me in the right direction ? Sorry if this turns out to be an extremely simple question, I'm a newbie to R ... Many greetings, Susanne -- Susanne Schwenke Epigenomics AG www.epigenomics.com Kastanienallee 24 +4930243450 10435 Berlin -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._