On Mar 6, 2013, at 03:56 , Rolf Turner wrote: > > > Your subject line is patent nonsense. The aov() and anova() functions > have been around for decades. If they were doing something wrong > it would have been noticed long since. > > You should realize that the fault is in your understanding, not in these > functions. > > I cannot really follow your convoluted and messy code, but it would > appear that you want to consider "M" and "I" to be random effects.
Only M and M:I, AFAICT. And, yes, it is messy; in particular, I refuse to believe that y~M*I has generated output with lowercase m and i! > > Where have you informed aov() as to the presence of these > random effects? To be specific, try y~I + Error(M + M:I). Without the random effects, aov() is just telling you that there is a highly significant interaction between M and I, and beyond that, no sensible comparisons can be made. > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner > > On 03/06/2013 03:36 PM, PatGauthier wrote: >> Dear useRs, >> >> I've just encountered a serious problem involving the F-test being carried >> out in aov() and anova(). In the provided example, aov() is not making the >> correct F-test for an hypothesis involving the expected mean square (EMS) of >> a factor divided by the EMS of another factor (i.e., instead of the error >> EMS). >> >> Here is the example: >> >> >> Expected Mean Square df >> Mi σ2+18σ2M 1 >> Ij σ2+6σ2MI+12Ф(I) 2 >> MIij σ2+6σ2MI 2 >> ε(ijk)l σ2 30 >> >> The clear test for Ij is EMS(I) / EMS(MI) - F(2,2) >> >> However, observe the following example carried out in R, >> >> M <- rep(c("M1", "M2"), each = 18) >> I <- as.ordered(rep(rep(c(5,10,15), each = 6), 2)) >> y <- >> c(44,39,48,40,43,41,27,20,25,21,28,22,35,30,29,34,31,38,12,7,6,11,7,12,15,10,12,17,11,13,22,15,27,22,21,19) >> dat <- data.frame(M, I, y) >> summary(aov(y~M*I, data = dat)) >> Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value >> Pr(>F) >> m 1 3136.0 3136.0 295.85 < >> 2e-16 *** >> i 2 513.7 256.9 24.23 >> 5.45e-07 *** >> m:i 2 969.5 484.7 45.73 >> 7.77e-10 *** >> Residuals 30 318.0 10.6 >> --- >> >> In this example aov has taken the F-ratio of MS(I) / MS(ε) - F(2,30) = >> 24.23 with F-crit = qf(0.95,2,3) = 9.55 -- significant >> >> However, as stated above, the correct F-ratio is MS(I) / MS(MI) - F(2,2) = >> 0.53 with F-crit = qf(0.95,2,2) = 19 -- non-significant >> >> Why is aov() miscalculating the F-ratio, and is there a way to fix this >> without prior knowledge of the appropriate test (e.g., EMS(I)/EMS(MI)? >> >> Thanks for your help, > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.