Dear Colm, Use lm() instead of aov() and your problem is solved. The parameter of Group.L is the linear trend along your groups. Group.Q the quandratic trend.
HTH, Thierry summary(lm(Mean_1 ~ Group*eventType, data=doi)) Call: lm(formula = Mean_1 ~ Group * eventType, data = doi) Residuals: Min 1Q Median 3Q Max -2.88504 -0.74862 -0.01771 0.92154 2.62031 Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) (Intercept) 5.1360 0.3610 14.229 3.41e-13 *** Group.L 2.7761 0.6252 4.440 0.000172 *** Group.Q -0.6375 0.6252 -1.020 0.318091 eventTypestops -2.0464 0.5105 -4.009 0.000515 *** Group.L:eventTypestops -2.3123 0.8842 -2.615 0.015175 * Group.Q:eventTypestops 1.9637 0.8842 2.221 0.036049 * --- Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 Residual standard error: 1.398 on 24 degrees of freedom Multiple R-squared: 0.6357, Adjusted R-squared: 0.5598 F-statistic: 8.375 on 5 and 24 DF, p-value: 0.0001073 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg Gaverstraat 4 9500 Geraardsbergen Belgium Research Institute for Nature and Forest team Biometrics & Quality Assurance Gaverstraat 4 9500 Geraardsbergen Belgium tel. + 32 54/436 185 thierry.onkel...@inbo.be www.inbo.be To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] Namens Colm Connolly Verzonden: vrijdag 18 december 2009 16:13 Aan: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch Onderwerp: [R] linear contrasts for trends in an anova Hi everybody, I'm trying to construct contrasts for an ANOVA to determine if there is a significant trend in the means of my groups. In the following example, based on the type of 2x3 ANOVA I'm trying to perform, does the linear polynomial contrast generated by contr.poly allow me to test for a linear trend across groups? doi=data.frame( Group=c( rep(1, 5), rep(2, 5), rep(3, 5), rep(1, 5), rep(2, 5), rep(3, 5)), Mean_1=c( rnorm(5, mean=3, sd=1), rnorm(5, mean=5.7, sd=1.2), rnorm(5, mean=7, sd=1.3), rnorm(5, mean=3.5, sd=1), rnorm(5, mean=3, sd=1.2), rnorm(5, mean=4.2, sd=1.7)), eventType=c( rep("errors", 15), rep("stops", 15))) doi$Group=factor(doi$Group, labels=c("Control", "Short", "Long"), ordered=T) ## construct contrasts contrasts(doi$Group)=contr.poly(levels(doi$Group)) model1=aov(Mean_1 ~ Group*eventType, data=doi) model1.summary=summary(model1) print(model1.summary) print(summary.lm(model1)) Thanks in advance, Regards, -- Dr Colm G. Connolly Institute of Neuroscience The Lloyd Building University of Dublin Trinity College, Dublin 2, Éire Fax: +353-1-671-3183 Please note that electronic mail to, from or within the Trinity College Dublin, may be the subject of a request under the Freedom of Information Act. Druk dit bericht a.u.b. niet onnodig af. Please do not print this message unnecessarily. Dit bericht en eventuele bijlagen geven enkel de visie van de schrijver weer en binden het INBO onder geen enkel beding, zolang dit bericht niet bevestigd is door een geldig ondertekend document. The views expressed in this message and any annex are purely those of the writer and may not be regarded as stating an official position of INBO, as long as the message is not confirmed by a duly signed document. ______________________________________________ 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.