You have only one Age value in each Lot. Hence the Age is aliased with one of the 5 degrees of freedom between lots. You can see it in the picture
xyplot(Conc ~ Age|Lot, data=blots, pch=16) There is no opportunity for a slope within each of the groups. Rich [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.