[R] car/MANOVA question

2012-03-19 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Dear colleagues, I had a question wrt the car package. How do I evaluate whether a simpler multivariate regression model is adequate? For instance, I do the following: ami - read.table(file = http://www.public.iastate.edu/~maitra/stat501/datasets/amitriptyline.dat;, col.names=c(TCAD, drug,

Re: [R] car/MANOVA question

2012-03-19 Thread John Fox
Dear Ranjan, As you no doubt noticed, the Manova() function in the car package, or the Anova() function for which Manova() is an alias, produces type II or III tests for a multivariate linear model. To compare two nested multivariate linear models, as you wish to do, you can use the standard R