Can anybody explain me what does it mean "Estimated effects may be unbalanced", and what does it imply for the anova analysis? Here a case example of what I get. > D<-expand.grid(A=c(0,1,2,3),B=c(0,1),C=c(0,1),res=c(runif(30,0,1))) > aov(res~A*B*C,data=D) Call: aov(formula = res ~ A * B * C, data = D) Terms: A B C A:B A:C B:C A:B:C Residuals Sum of Squares 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 50.93402 Deg. of Freedom 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 472 Residual standard error: 0.3284982 Estimated effects may be unbalanced Thanks in advance PS: > R.Version() $platform [1] "powerpc-apple-darwin8.10.1" $arch [1] "powerpc" $os [1] "darwin8.10.1" $system [1] "powerpc, darwin8.10.1" $status [1] "" $major [1] "2" $minor [1] "6.0" $year [1] "2007" $month [1] "10" $day [1] "03" $`svn rev` [1] "43063" $language [1] "R" $version.string [1] "R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03)" -------------------------------------------------------------------- Max MANFRIN Tel.: +32 (0)2 650 3168 IRIDIA - CoDE, CP 194/6 Fax.: +32 (0)2 650 2715 Universit? Libre de Bruxelles Av. F. D. Roosevelt, 50 1050 Brussels Email: mmanfrin at ulb.ac.be BELGIUM WWW: http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mmanfrin gpg DSA: 0xD3956AAF gpg fingerprint: 1D69 8664 EF25 FCDE 229F FCA1 E66F EAC5 D395 6AAF