Hi Richard, Thank you very much for your cooperation. I installed the packages "HH" and run the following model:
Bud.aov<-aov(terms(Budburst~CO2*SoilTemp*Photoperiod+Greenhouse/(SoilTemp*Photoperiod),keep.order=TRUE),data=data) > summary(Bud.aov) Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F) CO2 1 1465.2 1465.2 109.612 < 2e-16 *** SoilTemp 1 238.0 238.0 17.805 3.60e-05 *** CO2:SoilTemp 1 145.7 145.7 10.900 0.001125 ** Photoperiod 2 986.9 493.4 36.914 1.62e-14 *** CO2:Photoperiod 2 0.2 0.1 0.006 0.994095 SoilTemp:Photoperiod 2 14.6 7.3 0.545 0.580893 CO2:SoilTemp:Photoperiod 2 186.3 93.2 6.969 0.001167 ** Greenhouse 2 75.5 37.8 2.824 0.061538 . SoilTemp:Greenhouse 2 5.9 3.0 0.221 0.801896 Photoperiod:Greenhouse 4 283.4 70.8 5.300 0.000433 *** SoilTemp:Photoperiod:Greenhouse 4 56.7 14.2 1.060 0.377363 Residuals 216 2887.3 13.4 The results don't look like the results for the split-plot design which I got using the model below: mod<-aov(Budburst~CO2*SoilTemp*Photoperiod+Error(Greenhouse/(SoilTemp*Photoperiod)),data=data) > summary(mod) Error: Greenhouse Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F) CO2 1 1465.2 1465.2 38.81 0.0248 * Residuals 2 75.5 37.8 Error: Greenhouse:SoilTemp Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F) SoilTemp 1 238.00 238.00 80.57 0.0122 * CO2:SoilTemp 1 145.70 145.70 49.32 0.0197 * Residuals 2 5.91 2.95 Error: Greenhouse:Photoperiod Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F) Photoperiod 2 986.9 493.4 6.965 0.0498 * CO2:Photoperiod 2 0.2 0.1 0.001 0.9989 Residuals 4 283.4 70.8 Error: Greenhouse:SoilTemp:Photoperiod Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F) SoilTemp:Photoperiod 2 14.56 7.28 0.514 0.6330 CO2:SoilTemp:Photoperiod 2 186.31 93.15 6.576 0.0544 . Residuals 4 56.67 14.17 Error: Within Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F) Residuals 216 2887 13.37 The F and P values are quite different. Moreover, I could not run the post-hoc tests as well. At this stage I shall highly appreciate your further assistance. Thanks. Shah -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Post-hoc-tests-on-Split-plot-design-tp4707106p4707165.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.