Hi, I have a question about using "lme" and "aov" for the following dataset. If I understand correctly, using "aov" with Error term in the formula is equivalent to using "lme" with default settings, i.e. both assume compound symmetry correlation structure. And I have found that equivalency in the past. However, with the follwing dataset, I got different answers, can anyone explain what happened here? I have 2 differnt response variables "x" and "y" in the following dataset, with "y", I achieved the equivalency between "lme" and "aov", but with "x", I got different p values for the ANOVA table.
------- x<-c(-0.0649,-0.0923,-0.0623,0.1809,0.0719,0.1017,0.0144,-0.1727,-0.1332,0.0986,0.304,-0.4093,0.2054,0.251,-0.1062,0.3833, 0.0649,0.2908,0.1073,0.0919,0.1167,0.2369,0.306,0.1379) y<-c(-0.0649,-0.0923,0.32,0.08,0.0719,0.1017,0.05,-0.1727,-0.1332,0.15,0.304,-0.4093,0.2054,0.251,-0.1062,0.3833,0.0649, 0.2908,0.1073,0.0919,0.1167,0.2369,0.306,0.1379) treat<-as.factor(c(1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2)) time<-as.factor(c(1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3)) sex<-as.factor(c('F','F','M','M','F','F','M','M','F','F','M','M','F','F','M','M','F','F','M','M','F','F','M','M')) subject<-as.factor(c(rep(1:4,3),rep(5:8,3))) xx<-cbind(x=data.frame(x),y=y,treat=treat,time=time,sex=sex,subject=subject) ######## using x as dependable variable xx.lme<-lme(x~treat*sex*time,random=~1|subject,xx) xx.aov<-aov(x~treat*sex*time+Error(subject),xx) summary(xx.aov) Error: subject Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F) treat 1 0.210769 0.210769 6.8933 0.05846 . sex 1 0.005775 0.005775 0.1889 0.68627 treat:sex 1 0.000587 0.000587 0.0192 0.89649 Residuals 4 0.122304 0.030576 --- Signif. codes: 0 `***' 0.001 `**' 0.01 `*' 0.05 `.' 0.1 ` ' 1 Error: Within Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F) time 2 0.00102 0.00051 0.0109 0.9891 treat:time 2 0.00998 0.00499 0.1066 0.9002 sex:time 2 0.02525 0.01263 0.2696 0.7704 treat:sex:time 2 0.03239 0.01619 0.3458 0.7178 Residuals 8 0.37469 0.04684 anova(xx.lme) numDF denDF F-value p-value (Intercept) 1 8 3.719117 0.0899 treat 1 4 5.089022 0.0871 sex 1 4 0.139445 0.7278 time 2 8 0.012365 0.9877 treat:sex 1 4 0.014175 0.9110 treat:time 2 8 0.120538 0.8880 sex:time 2 8 0.304878 0.7454 treat:sex:time 2 8 0.391012 0.6886 #### using y as dependable variable xx.lme2<-lme(y~treat*sex*time,random=~1|subject,xx) xx.aov2<-aov(y~treat*sex*time+Error(subject),xx) summary(xx.aov2) Error: subject Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F) treat 1 0.147376 0.147376 2.0665 0.2239 sex 1 0.000474 0.000474 0.0067 0.9389 treat:sex 1 0.006154 0.006154 0.0863 0.7836 Residuals 4 0.285268 0.071317 Error: Within Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F) time 2 0.009140 0.004570 0.1579 0.8565 treat:time 2 0.012598 0.006299 0.2177 0.8090 sex:time 2 0.043132 0.021566 0.7453 0.5049 treat:sex:time 2 0.069733 0.034866 1.2050 0.3488 Residuals 8 0.231480 0.028935 anova(xx.lme2) numDF denDF F-value p-value (Intercept) 1 8 3.0667809 0.1180 treat 1 4 2.0664919 0.2239 sex 1 4 0.0066516 0.9389 time 2 8 0.1579473 0.8565 treat:sex 1 4 0.0862850 0.7836 treat:time 2 8 0.2177028 0.8090 sex:time 2 8 0.7453185 0.5049 treat:sex:time 2 8 1.2049883 0.3488 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help