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Dear R-users I am relatively new to R, i hope my many novice questions are welcome. I have problems accessing some objects (specifically the random effects, correlation structure and variance function) from an object of class gls and lme. I used the following models: yah <- gls (outcome~ -1 + as.factor(Trial):as.factor(endpoint)+

Hi, I asked this on mixed model mailing list, but that list is not very active, so I'd like to try the general R mailing list. Sorry if anyone receives the double post. Hi, I have a dataset of animals receiving some eye treatments. There are 8 treatments, each animal's right and left eye was measured with some scores (ranging from 0 to 7) 4 times after treatment. So there are

I currently have a program that automates 2-way ANOVA on a series of endpoints, but before the ANOVA is carried out I want the code to test the assumptions of normality and equal variance and report along with each anova result in the output file.  How can I do this? I have pasted below the code that I currently use.   library(car) numFiles = x #

Dear Thomas Lumley, and R-help list members, I have read your article "Network meta-analysis for indirect treatment comparisons" (Statist Med, 2002) with great interest. I found it very helpful that you included the R code to replicate your analysis; however, I have had a problem replicating your example and wondered if you are able to give me a hint. When I use the code from the

Hello, R users, I have two factors (treat, section) anova design experiment where there are 3 replicates. The objective of the experiment is to test if there is significant difference of yield between top (section 9 to 11) and bottom (section 9 to 11) of the fruit tree under treatment. I found that there are interaction between two factors. I wonder if I can contrast means from levels of

Hello, R experts, If I understand Ted's anwser correctly, then I can not contrast the mean yields between sections 1-8 and 9-11 under "Trt" but I can contrast mean yields for sections 1-3 and 6-11 because there exists significant interaction between two factors (Trt:section4, Trt:section5). Could I use the commands below to test the difference between sections 1-3 and 6-11 ?

Hello, R experts, I have a list called dataHP which has 30 elements (m1, m2, ..., m30). Each element is a 7x6 matrix holding yield data from two factors experimental design, with treatment in column, position in row. For instance, the element 20 is: dataHP[[20]] col1 col2 col3 trt1 trt2 trt3 [1,] 22.0 20.3 29.7 63.3 78.5 76.4 [2,]

Hi all,  I was trying to use glht() from multcomp package to construct a contrast on interaction term in a linear model to do some comparisons. I am little uncertain on how to construct contrasts on a 3-way interaction containing a continuous variable, and hope someone can confirm what I did is correct or wrong: The linear model has a continuous dependent variable “y”, with treatment factor

I am confused whether Student's sleep data "show the effect of two soporific drugs" or Control against Treatment (one drug). The reason is the next: > require(stats) > data(sleep) > attach(sleep) > extra[group==1] numeric(0) > group [1] Ctl Ctl Ctl Ctl Ctl Ctl Ctl Ctl Ctl Ctl Trt Trt Trt Trt Trt Trt Trt Trt Trt [20] Trt Levels: Ctl Trt > sleep$group [1] 1 1 1 1 1

I am trying to define groupings from levels of factor variables and this the warning message that R give "& not meaningful for factors". The nature of my task is this. I have a variable stage which has the levels (1B, 2A, 2B) - these are the AJCC TNM stages of cancer, and another variable diameter with factor levels ("=< 4", "4 - 6.5, > 6.5; limit values are

Hello, I probably have a syntax error in trying to generate an expected survival curve from a weighted cox model, but I can't see it. I used the help sample code to generate a weighted model, with the addition of a "weights=albumin" argument (I only chose albumin because it had no missing values, not because of any real relevance). Below are my code with the resulting error

Based on what follows, the most favourable construction is that the documentation, by failing to say that the function should be used only for completely balanced designs, is deficient. Even for such designs, there is a bug that needs correction. The discussion is lengthy because I think it important to document, at least wrt effects and means, exactly what model.tables() does. My preference is

Example: I have the following model > model <- lmer(response ~ time * trt * bio + (time|id), data = dat) where time = time of observation trt = treatment group (0-no treatment / 1-treated) bio = biological factor (0-absent / 1-present) and I would like to obtain an estimate (with standard error) of the change in response over time for individuals in the

Hello listmembers, I've been thinking of using gls in the nlme package to test for serial correlation in my data set. I've simulated a sample data set and have found a large discrepancy in the results I get when using the default method REML vs. ML. The data set involves a response that is measured twice a day (once for each level of a treatment factor). In my simulated data set, I

You need to give the model formula that gave your output. There are two sources of variation (at least), within and between locations; though it looks as though your analysis may have tried to account for this (but if so, the terms are not laid out in a way that makes for ready interpretation. The design is such (two locations) that you do not have much of a check that effects are consistent over

Dear, I have a dataset with 4 subjects (see ID in example), and 4 treatment (see TRT in example) which are tested on 2 locations and in 3 blocs. By using Lattice dotplot, I made a graph that shows the raw data per location and per bloc. In that graph, I would like to have a reference line per bloc that refers to the first treatment (T1). However, I can not find how to do that. I can make

I have been using lme from nlme to do a 3-way anova with all the effects treated as random. I was wondering if someone could direct me to an example of how to do this using lmer from lme4. I have 3 main effects, tim, trt, ctr, and all the interaction effects tim*trt*ctr. The response variable is ge. Here is my lme code: dat <-

I've been experimenting with drop1 for my biostatistics class, to obtain the so-called Type III sums of squares. I am fully aware of the deficiencies of this method, however I feel that the students should be familiar with it. What I find baffling is that when applied to a fully balanced design, you obtain different sums of squares. I've used this for several years in Splus and R and never

My apologies to the list for sending this without adequate research. I have found my answer; please ignore! Thanks. I've been experimenting with drop1 for my biostatistics class, to obtain the so-called Type III sums of squares. I am fully aware of the deficiencies of this method, however I feel that the students should be familiar with it. What I find baffling is that when applied to a fully

Hello, I'm having trouble in using "assign(paste ..." command . I could create several dataframes following trinomial distribution using it but it could not be used to check their row means of the created dataframe. For example, the following works: probTrt=matrix(0,4,3); probTrt; #malf, death, normal probTrt[1,]=c(0.064,0.119,0.817);#for Trt 1 probTrt[2,]=c(0.053,0.125,0.823);#for