Hi, I want to do ANOVA for nested designs like following. I don't understand why the matrix (t(X) %*% X) is singular. Can somebody help me understand it?
Regards, Peng > a=2 > b=3 > n=4 > A = as.vector(sapply(1:a,function(x){rep(x,b*n)})) > B = as.vector(sapply(1:(a*b), function(x){rep(x,n)})) > cbind(A,B) A B [1,] 1 1 [2,] 1 1 [3,] 1 1 [4,] 1 1 [5,] 1 2 [6,] 1 2 [7,] 1 2 [8,] 1 2 [9,] 1 3 [10,] 1 3 [11,] 1 3 [12,] 1 3 [13,] 2 4 [14,] 2 4 [15,] 2 4 [16,] 2 4 [17,] 2 5 [18,] 2 5 [19,] 2 5 [20,] 2 5 [21,] 2 6 [22,] 2 6 [23,] 2 6 [24,] 2 6 > Y = A + B + rnorm(a*b*n) > fr = data.frame(Y=Y,A=as.factor(A),B=as.factor(B)) > afit=aov(Y ~ A / B - 1,fr) > X=model.matrix(afit) > solve(t(X) %*% X) Error in solve.default(t(X) %*% X) : Lapack routine dgesv: system is exactly singular ______________________________________________ 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.