Hi janesense,
You might find it useful to go through the tutorial listed here for help:
http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/repeated-measures-anova-with-r-tutorials/
Cheers,
Tal
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On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:31 AM, janesense <dumb_jello@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm having a little trouble with working out what formula is better to
use
> for a repeated measures two way anova. I have two factors, L (five levels)
> and T (two levels). L and T are both crossed factors (all participants do
> all combinations). So, I do:
>
> summary(aov(dat~L*T+Error(participant/(L*T)),data=dat4))
>
> But get different results with:
>
> anova(lme(dat~L*T,random=~1|participant,data=dat4)).
>
> Rather, the lme results are the same as those with the formula
>
> summary(aov(dat~L*T+Error(participant),data=dat4))
>
> I know most people advocate the use of lme rather than aov, but I think I
> need to include factors L and T in the error term and can't figure out
how
> to do this with lme, so possibly the first aov is more correct. I have a
> balanced design so I don't think it would be a problem to use aov.
>
> The first aov shows an expected significant interaction (unlike lme and the
> second aov), but I don't want to use this if it's incorrect!
>
> If anyone could help, that would be great.
>
>
>
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