Tis list is about R programming issues; statistical questons are generally
OT. The r-sig-mixed-models list would be a much better place to post your
queries.
Cheers,
Bert
Bert Gunter
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On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 8:43 AM, Cristiano Alessandro <
cri.alessan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am fitting a linear mixed model with lme4 in R. The model has a single
> factor (des_days) with 4 levels (-1,1,14,48), and I am using random
> intercept and slopes.
>
> Fixed effects: data ~ des_days
> Value Std.Error DF t-value p-value
> (Intercept) 0.8274313 0.007937938 962 104.23757 0.0000
> des_days1 -0.0026322 0.007443294 962 -0.35363 0.7237
> des_days14 -0.0011319 0.006635512 962 -0.17058 0.8646
> des_days48 0.0112579 0.005452614 962 2.06469 0.0392
>
> I can clearly use the previous results to compare the estimations of each
> "des_day" to the intercept, using the provided t-statistics. Alternatively,
> I could use post-hoc tests (z-statistics):
>
> > ph_conditional <- c("des_days1 = 0",
> "des_days14 = 0",
> "des_days48 = 0");
> > lev.ph <- glht(lev.lm, linfct = ph_conditional);
> > summary(lev.ph)
>
> Simultaneous Tests for General Linear Hypotheses
>
> Fit: lme.formula(fixed = data ~ des_days, data = data_red_trf, random
> = ~des_days |
> ratID, method = "ML", na.action = na.omit, control = lCtr)
>
> Linear Hypotheses:
> Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)
> des_days1 == 0 -0.002632 0.007428 -0.354 0.971
> des_days14 == 0 -0.001132 0.006622 -0.171 0.996
> des_days48 == 0 0.011258 0.005441 2.069 0.101
> (Adjusted p values reported -- single-step method)
>
>
> The p-values of the coefficient estimates and those of the post-hoc tests
> differ because the latter are adjusted with Bonferroni correction. I wonder
> whether there is any form of correction in the coefficient estimated of the
> LMM, and which p-values are more appropriate to use.
>
> Thanks
> Cristiano
>
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