Dear Angelo, One way to do this is with the Anova() function in the car package; see the following article in the R Journal:
@Article{RJournal:2013-1:fox-friendly-weisberg, author = {John Fox and Michael Friendly and Sanford Weisberg}, title = {Hypothesis Tests for Multivariate Linear Models Using the {car} Package}, journal = {The R Journal}, year = 2013, volume = 5, number = 1, pages = {39--53}, month = jun, url = {http://journal.r-project.org/archive/2013-1/RJournal_2013-1_fox-friendly-we isberg.pdf} I hope this helps, John ----------------------------------------------- John Fox, Professor McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/ > -----Original Message----- > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of > angelo.arc...@virgilio.it > Sent: July-06-15 10:05 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Sphericity for a repeated measure ANOVA with whithin and > between subjects design, using R > > Dear List Members, > > > > I need to perform a four-way ANOVA with repeated measures and to > calculate the sphericity for eventual correction of the degree of > freedom of the F ratio. > I have three within subjects factors (Emotion, having 5 levels, > Material, having 4 levels, Shoes, having 2 levels) and a between subject > factor (Musician, having 2 levels). Without considering the sphericity > I > use the following formula > > aov_SPL = aov(SPL ~ Emotion*Material*Shoes*Musician + > Error(Subject/(Emotion*Material*Shoes)), data=scrd) > > > > Unfortunately after having read lot of material online I did not > arrive to a solution about how to calculate for my case the epsilon of > the Greenhouse-Geisser method for degree of freedom adjustment. > > > I load my data in R with this formula: > > scrd<- read.csv(file='/path to data/data.csv',sep=',',header=T) > > > > and this is the structure of the imported table: > > > head(scrd) > Subject Material Shoes Emotion H2H H2H_factor SPL_factor > SPL_variation SPL Musician Weight Height > 1 Subject1 Gravel dress_shoes AGGRESSIVE 468 0.736 11.591 > 21.283 97.383 no 90 183 > 2 Subject1 Gravel dress_shoes HAPPY 719 1.129 3.188 > 10.071 86.171 no 90 183 > 3 Subject1 Gravel dress_shoes TENDER 1129 1.774 5.114 > 14.176 90.276 no 90 183 > 4 Subject1 Gravel dress_shoes SAD 1010 1.587 13.102 > 22.347 98.447 no 90 183 > 5 Subject1 Gravel dress_shoes NEUTRAL 736 1.156 3.161 > 9.995 86.095 no 90 183 > 6 Subject10 Gravel dress_shoes AGGRESSIVE 635 0.998 15.849 > 24.000 100.100 yes 70 178 > > > > > > I noticed that in the car package there is the Anova() function that > comes with the Maulchy's sphericity test, but it does not take as an > input a model generated with aov(). I need to use lm() instead, but > since > I am not really proficient in R I do not know how to use the lm() > starting from the loaded data and how to use Anova(). In addition, being > a mixed design involving within and between subjects factors I wonder > if Anova() is the most appropriate function to use for my case. > > > Is there anyone who could provide me with the R code to calculate the > Maulchy's test and the epsilon of Greenhouse-Geisser for my case? > > > Thank you in advance > Best > > Angelo > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ______________________________________________ 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.