http://www.nabble.com/file/p24211204/repeated.csv repeated.csv Dear all, I'm currently trying to replicate some Proc Mixed results using lme() and have a curious result I can't explain. The dataset is a repeated measures example where patients (each on one of several treatments) are measured over a number of days. Putting aside issues of the error covariance structure I'm using the simple compound symmetry. The SAS code I'm using is: Proc mixed ; class dose day animal ; model blood=dose|day / htype=1,3; repeated day / subject = animal type = cs; run; and the lme code is testmain<-lme(blood~dose*day, random=~1|animal, data=sasdata, na.action (na.omit)) anova(testmain) The overall test of the fixed effects agree as expected, but when I tried Blood2 (which has missing data) only the Day*Dose interaction agrees. I tried sequential and marginal options in the anove.lme code but to no effect. I suspect this is something to do with the "non-orthogonality" induced by the missing data but I am not sure. Not being an expert in this area I was wondering if anyone knew why I'm seeing these differences and if I can tweak the R code to get agreement? Any thoughts would be most appreciated! Simon -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/lme-gives-different-results-to-SAS-Proc-Mixed-tp24211204p24211204.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.