Analysis of covariance comes to mind, and it looks like you have already setup your data for that type of analysis. I can't speak on issues related to the different number of samples (maybe a place for mixed modeling?), but from the results below (from lm) it looks like you can conclude that the two slopes aren't all that different. Any interpretation of 'statistical significance' at some defined cutoff (i.e. p < 0.05) will have to be scrutinized in regards to whether or not your samples are truly IID.
Good luck, Dylan On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Anne Kirsten Bowser <akbow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello! > > I have measurements (length and volume) of fish collected in two years. I > want to know if the the relationship between length and volume is the same > for both years. The number of fish measured is different for each year. I > don't know whether lm or aov is more appropriate to use. > > Here are the two output options: > > Call: > lm(formula = Volume ~ Length * Year) > > Residuals: > Min 1Q Median 3Q Max > -1.35062 -0.42695 -0.02234 0.29789 1.78540 > > Coefficients: > Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) > (Intercept) -8.699125 0.543372 -16.010 <2e-16 *** > Length 0.151462 0.006708 22.578 <2e-16 *** > Year1 1.627903 1.168158 1.394 0.1660 > Length:Year1 -0.024259 0.014510 -1.672 0.0972 . > --- > Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1 > > Residual standard error: 0.6016 on 119 degrees of freedom > Multiple R-squared: 0.8384, Adjusted R-squared: 0.8343 > F-statistic: 205.8 on 3 and 119 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16 > > ---- > AND for aov: > ---- > > Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F) > Length 1 219.457 219.457 606.4349 < 2.2e-16 *** > Year 1 2.970 2.970 8.2073 0.004934 ** > Length:Year 1 1.012 1.012 2.7952 0.097173 . > Residuals 119 43.064 0.362 > --- > Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1 > > > Thanks very much for any help. > Kirsten > > [[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. > > ______________________________________________ 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.
