Hello all, I have two questions regarding nested anova. I've attached a simple example, where a male is mated with 4 females, and the intensity of the colour of the eyes is measured in two offspring from each female. 1) As I understand it, residuals in a nested anova are the difference between an observed value and the predicted value, which is equal to the sample mean for the cell that contains that observed value (e.g. residual for ind 1 = 58.5 - 59 = -0.5). Therefore for the dataset below there should be 24 residuals and 24 fitted values, to be used for diagnostics, etc. As I read on Venables & Ripley (4th Edition) pp 279-286, there should be 4 strata in this experiment (model<-aov(eye~male/female+Error(male/female)): (i) one corresponding to the total of all observations, (ii) one corresponding to contrasts between male totals, (iii) one corresponding to contrasts between females and (iv) the residual stratum. Residual and fitted values for this model can be obtained from resid(model[[4]]) and fitted(model[[4]]) (pp 284 V&R). Given this, could someone please explain me how fitted values are calculated in this case? There seems that Heiberger 1989 (in V&R) offers some explanation, but unfortunately the library does not have the book, or someone around. 2) In the present case, there seems that fitted(model[[4]]) are all 0. Is there any particular reason for this result? [,1] 13 0 14 0 15 0 16 0 17 0 18 0 19 0 20 0 21 0 22 0 23 0 24 0 eye male female 58.5 1 1 59.5 1 1 77.8 1 2 80.9 1 2 84.0 1 3 83.6 1 3 70.1 1 4 68.3 1 4 69.8 2 1 69.8 2 1 56.0 2 2 54.5 2 2 50.7 2 3 49.3 2 3 63.8 2 4 65.8 2 4 56.6 3 1 57.5 3 1 77.8 3 2 79.2 3 2 69.9 3 3 69.2 3 3 62.1 3 4 64.5 3 4 Thanks Leonardo Leonardo D. Bacigalupe Department of Animal and Plant Sciences University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2TN United Kingdom L.Bacigalupe at sheffield.ac.uk