On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Sachi Ito wrote:
Hi,
I'm analyzing my data using GEE, which looks like below:
interact <- geeglm(L ~ O + A + O:A,
+ data = data1, id = id,
+ family = binomial, corstr = "ar1")
summary(interact)
Call:
geeglm(formula = lateral ~ ontask + attachment + ontask:attachment,
family = binomial, data = firstgroupnowalking, id = id, corstr = "ar1")
Coefficients:
Estimate Std.err Wald Pr(>|W|)
(Intercept) -1.89133 0.30363 38.80 4.7e-10 ***
O 0.00348 0.00100 12.03 0.00052 ***
A1 -0.21729 0.37350 0.34 0.56073
A2 -0.14151 0.43483 0.11 0.74486
O:A1 -0.37540 0.16596 5.12 0.02370 *
O:A2 -0.27626 0.16651 2.75 0.09708 .
---
Signif. codes: 0 ?***? 0.001 ?**? 0.01 ?*? 0.05 ?.? 0.1 ? ? 1
Estimated Scale Parameters:
Estimate Std.err
(Intercept) 1.27 0.369
Correlation: Structure = ar1 Link = identity
Estimated Correlation Parameters:
Estimate Std.err
alpha 0.979 0.00586
Number of clusters: 49 Maximum cluster size: 533
I decided to use auto-regression as the correlation structure because of the
high auto-correlation of the dependent variable, "L". However, because one
of the predictors, "O", also has high time dependency (high
autocorrelation), the estimate of "O" (0.00348) seems to be too small. In
this case, how shall I interpret the parameter?
First off, do you know how to interpret main effects in the presence of an
interaction involving them?? I suspect not, but feel free to offer
evidence to the contrary and then tell us why discussing 'the estimate of
"O"' is sensible.
Secondly, without much more detail on the data it is hard to know what to
make of a question like this even if the business of main
effects/interactions is handled. As suggested, providing a minimal,
reproducible example of R code will go a long way.
Chuck
Should I be using another analysis, such as loglm?
Thank you in advance for your help!
Sachi
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