Thanks so much for replying. Yes LimerTest package could be used to get pvalues when using lmer function. But still the summary and anova function give different pvalues. Hanna
2015-05-26 15:19 GMT-04:00, byron vinueza <byronvin...@hotmail.com>: > You can use the lmerTest package . > > > > > > Enviado desde mi iPhone > >> El 26/5/2015, a las 13:18, li li <hannah....@gmail.com> escribió: >> >> Hi all, >> I am using the lme function to run a random coefficient model. Please >> see >> output (mod1) as below. >> I need to obtain the pvalue for the fixed effect. As you can see, >> the pvalues given using the summary function is different from the >> resutls given in anova function. >> Why should they be different and which one is the correct one to use? >> Thanks! >> Hanna >> >> >>> summary(mod1) >> Linear mixed-effects model fit by REML >> Data: minus20C1 >> AIC BIC logLik >> -82.60042 -70.15763 49.30021 >> >> Random effects: >> Formula: ~1 + months | lot >> Structure: General positive-definite, Log-Cholesky parametrization >> StdDev Corr >> (Intercept) 8.907584e-03 (Intr) >> months 6.039781e-05 -0.096 >> Residual 4.471243e-02 >> >> Fixed effects: ti ~ type * months >> Value Std.Error DF t-value p-value >> (Intercept) 0.25831245 0.016891587 31 15.292373 0.0000 >> type 0.13502089 0.026676101 4 5.061493 0.0072 >> months 0.00804790 0.001218941 31 6.602368 0.0000 >> type:months -0.00693679 0.002981859 31 -2.326329 0.0267 >> Correlation: >> (Intr) typ months >> type -0.633 >> months -0.785 0.497 >> type:months 0.321 -0.762 -0.409 >> >> Standardized Within-Group Residuals: >> Min Q1 Med Q3 Max >> -2.162856e+00 -1.962972e-01 -2.771184e-05 3.749035e-01 2.088392e+00 >> >> Number of Observations: 39 >> Number of Groups: 6 >>> anova(mod1) >> numDF denDF F-value p-value >> (Intercept) 1 31 2084.0265 <.0001 >> type 1 4 10.8957 0.0299 >> months 1 31 38.3462 <.0001 >> type:months 1 31 5.4118 0.0267 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> r-sig-mixed-mod...@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mixed-models > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.