Dear Prof. John Fox, thank you very much for your suggestions. However, I still do not know how to use the contrasts after generating them. Once I generate the matrix with the polynomial contrasts, what are the following steps toward the statistical test?
A whole example would be very useful. Thank you very much in advance! Best regards, Gian Mauro Manzoni 2012/7/25 John Fox <j...@mcmaster.ca> > Dear Gian, > > How contrasts are created by default is controlled by the contrasts option: > > > getOption("contrasts") > unordered ordered > "contr.treatment" "contr.poly" > > So, unless you've changed this option, contr.poly() will be used to > generate orthogonal polynomial contrasts for an ordered factor, and you > therefore need do nothing special to get this result. For example: > > > (f <- ordered(sample(letters[1:3], 10, replace=TRUE))) > [1] c c a a c c b c a c > Levels: a < b < c > > > round(contrasts(f), 4) > .L .Q > [1,] -0.7071 0.4082 > [2,] 0.0000 -0.8165 > [3,] 0.7071 0.4082 > > For more information, see section 11 on statistical models in the manual > "An Introduction to R," which is part of the standard R distribution, and > in particular sections 11.1 and 11.1.1. > > I hope that this clarifies the issue. > > Best, > John > > ------------------------------------------------ > John Fox > Sen. William McMaster Prof. of Social Statistics > Department of Sociology > McMaster University > Hamilton, Ontario, Canada > http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/ > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:58:30 +0200 > "Manzoni, GianMauro" <gm.manz...@auxologico.it> wrote: > > Dear Greg Snow, > > thank you very much for your suggestions. However, I need an example in > > order to understand fully. > > I was told that, given the ordinal factor, I do not need to specify the > > contr.poly function because R does it automatically. > > However, I don not know if I have to add an argument into the > manova/anova > > function or something else. > > Please write me an illustrative example. > > Many thanks. > > > > Best regards, > > Gian Mauro Manzoni > > > > 2012/7/25 Greg Snow <538...@gmail.com> > > > > > You should not need to write them yourself. Look at the contr.poly > > > function along with the C function (Note uppercase C) or the contrasts > > > function. > > > > > > > > > On Monday, July 23, 2012, Manzoni, GianMauro wrote: > > > > > >> Dear all, > > >> I am quite new to R and I am having trouble writing the polynomial > > >> contrasts for an ordinal factor in MANOVA. > > >> # I have a model such as this > > >> fit<-manova(cbind(Y1,Y2,Y3)~Groups,data=Events) # where groups is an > > >> ordinal factor with 4 levels > > >> # how to set polynomial contrasts for the "Groups" factor ? > > >> > > >> Thank you very much in advance for any help! > > >> > > >> Best regards, > > >> Mauro > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Dr. Gian Mauro Manzoni > > >> PhD, PsyD > > >> Psychology Research Laboratory > > >> San Giuseppe Hospital > > >> Istituto Auxologico Italiano > > >> Verbania - Italy > > >> e-mail: gm.manz...@auxologico.it > > >> cell. phone +39 338 4451207 > > >> Tel. +39 0323 514278 > > >> > > >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > >> > > >> ______________________________________________ > > >> 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. > > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. > > > 538...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Dr. Gian Mauro Manzoni > > PhD, PsyD > > Psychology Research Laboratory > > San Giuseppe Hospital > > Istituto Auxologico Italiano > > Verbania - Italy > > e-mail: gm.manz...@auxologico.it > > cell. phone +39 338 4451207 > > Tel. +39 0323 514278 > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > -- Dr. Gian Mauro Manzoni PhD, PsyD Psychology Research Laboratory San Giuseppe Hospital Istituto Auxologico Italiano Verbania - Italy e-mail: gm.manz...@auxologico.it cell. phone +39 338 4451207 Tel. +39 0323 514278 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.