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Help Interpreting Linear Mixed Model

13 messages · Joshua Dixon, Thierry Onkelinx, Michael Dewey +1 more

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Hello!

Very new to R (10 days), and I've run the linear mixed model, below.
Attempting to interpret what it means...  What do I need to look for?
Residuals, correlations of fixed effects?!

How would I look at very specific interactions, such as PREMIER_LEAGUE
(Level) 18 (AgeGr) GK (Position) mean difference to CHAMPIONSHIP 18  GK?

For reference my data set looks like this:

Id Level AgeGr   Position Height Weight BMI YoYo
7451 CHAMPIONSHIP 14 M NA 63 NA 80
148 PREMIER_LEAGUE 16 D NA 64 NA 80
10393 CONFERENCE 10 D NA 36 NA 160
10200 CHAMPIONSHIP 10 F NA 46 NA 160
1961 LEAGUE_TWO 13 GK NA 67 NA 160
10428 CHAMPIONSHIP 10 GK NA 40 NA 160
10541 LEAGUE_ONE 10 F NA 25 NA 160
10012 CHAMPIONSHIP 10 GK NA 30 NA 160
9895 CHAMPIONSHIP 10 D NA 36 NA 160


Many thanks in advance for time and help.  Really appreciate it.

Josh
Linear mixed model fit by REML ['lmerMod']
Formula: YoYo ~ AgeGr + Position + (1 | Id)

REML criterion at convergence: 125712.2

Scaled residuals:
    Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max
-3.4407 -0.5288 -0.0874  0.4531  4.8242

Random effects:
 Groups   Name        Variance Std.Dev.
 Id       (Intercept) 15300    123.7
 Residual             16530    128.6
Number of obs: 9609, groups:  Id, 6071

Fixed effects:
             Estimate Std. Error t value
(Intercept) -521.6985    16.8392  -30.98
AgeGr         62.6786     0.9783   64.07
PositionD    139.4682     7.8568   17.75
PositionM    141.2227     7.7072   18.32
PositionF    135.1241     8.1911   16.50

Correlation of Fixed Effects:
          (Intr) AgeGr  PostnD PostnM
AgeGr     -0.910
PositionD -0.359 -0.009
PositionM -0.375  0.001  0.810
PositionF -0.349 -0.003  0.756  0.782
Simultaneous Tests for General Linear Hypotheses

Multiple Comparisons of Means: Tukey Contrasts


Fit: lmer(formula = YoYo ~ AgeGr + Position + (1 | Id))

Linear Hypotheses:
            Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)
D - GK == 0  139.468      7.857  17.751   <1e-04 ***
M - GK == 0  141.223      7.707  18.323   <1e-04 ***
F - GK == 0  135.124      8.191  16.496   <1e-04 ***
M - D == 0     1.754      4.799   0.366    0.983
F - D == 0    -4.344      5.616  -0.774    0.862
F - M == 0    -6.099      5.267  -1.158    0.645
---
Signif. codes:  0 ?***? 0.001 ?**? 0.01 ?*? 0.05 ?.? 0.1 ? ? 1
(Adjusted p values reported -- single-step method)
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Dear Josh,

Is this homework? Because the list has a no homework policy.

Best regards,

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and
Forest
team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
Kliniekstraat 25
1070 Anderlecht
Belgium

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more
than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say
what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not
ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.
~ John Tukey

2015-04-27 2:26 GMT+02:00 Joshua Dixon <joshuamichaeldixon at gmail.com>:

  
  
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Hello Thierry,

No, this isn't homework. Not that young unfortunately. 

Josh

  
  
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Hello Josh,

One is never too old to study ;-)

Your question seems quite broad. You might be better off to read some books
on mixed models (e.g. Pinheiro & Bates (2000) or Zuur et al (2009)) or try
to find a local statistician. Email is not a suitable medium to teach
statistics.

Note that r-sig-mixed-models is a more suitable list for _specific_
questions on mixed models.

Best regards,

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and
Forest
team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
Kliniekstraat 25
1070 Anderlecht
Belgium

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more
than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say
what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not
ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.
~ John Tukey

2015-04-27 9:54 GMT+02:00 Joshua Dixon <joshuamichaeldixon at gmail.com>:

  
  
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John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
A few years ago a friend of mine and her daughter were neck-in-neck on who got their Ph.D first. What's this "not that young" business?

BTW, a better way to supply sample data is to use the dput() command.

Do a dput(mydata), copy the results into the email and you have supplied us with an exact copy of your data.  

It is possible for many reasons that I will not read in your data, as you supplied it, in the format you have it in.  This can lead to real confusion.
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Dear Joshua

It would also help if you told us what your scientific question was. At 
the moment we know what R commands you used and have seen the head of 
your dataset but not why you are doing it.

I would summarise what you have given us as

1 - most ID only occur once
2 - goal keepers do worse than outfield players
3 - older people (presumably in fact age is in years as a continuous 
variable) do better
On 27/04/2015 12:42, John Kane wrote:

  
    
  
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Apologies for my ignorance!

*Thierry* - thank you for the reading.  I'll look into those ASAP!

*John* - The data set I have is quite large, when using the dput() command
I'm unsure if it actually fits the whole output into the console.  I can't
scroll up far enough to see the actual command.  I can paste what is there
if that may help?  The bottom line:

Names = c("Id", "Level", "AgeGr", "Position", "Height", "Weight", "BMI",
"YoYo"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -9689L))

*Michael *- Essentially, I'm looking for differences between "YoYo" outcome
for "Positions", "Levels" and accounting for repeated measures using "Id"
as a random factor.  So I was able to figure out points 2 and 3.

I've searched for definitions of "Scaled residuals", "Random effects", "Fixed
effects", "Correlation of Fixed Effects".  However, I'm confused at the
different interpretations I've found.  Or quite possibly, I'm just
confused...  What should I be looking out for in these variables?

I've tried to take my analysis smaller, and just look at specifics, to make
it simpler.  Such as, comparing YoYo (outcome score) for a Premier_League
(Level), 22 (AgeGr) F (Position) with a Premier_League (Level), 22 (AgeGr)
M (Position).  How do I convert these into a factors for analysis?

Simple question maybe, but it's not when you can't find the answer!

Thank you,

Josh

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Michael Dewey <lists at dewey.myzen.co.uk>
wrote:

  
  
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Hi Josh,

Just a sample  is usually  fine. As long as it cover a representative (must be time for dinner---I was going to type reprehensibe) sample of the data then something like dput(head(mydata, 100) ) works well.  

Kingston ON Canada

-----Original Message-----
From: joshuamichaeldixon at gmail.com
Sent: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:30:39 +0100
To: lists at dewey.myzen.co.uk
Subject: Re: [R] Help Interpreting Linear Mixed Model

Apologies for my ignorance!

Thierry - thank you for the reading.? I'll look into those ASAP!

John - The data set I have is quite large, when using the dput() command I'm unsure if it actually fits the whole output into the console.? I can't scroll up far enough to see the actual command.? I can paste what is there if that may help?? The bottom line:?

Names = c("Id", "Level", "AgeGr", "Position", "Height", "Weight", "BMI", "YoYo"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -9689L))

Michael - Essentially, I'm looking for differences between "YoYo" outcome for "Positions", "Levels" and accounting for repeated measures using "Id" as a random factor.? So I was able to figure out points 2 and 3.

I've searched for definitions of "Scaled residuals",?"Random effects",?"Fixed effects",?"Correlation of Fixed Effects".? However, I'm confused at the different interpretations I've found.? Or quite possibly, I'm just confused...? What should I be?looking?out for in these variables?

I've tried to take my analysis smaller, and just look at specifics, to make it simpler.? Such as, comparing YoYo (outcome score) for a Premier_League (Level), 22 (AgeGr) F (Position) with a?Premier_League (Level), 22 (AgeGr) M (Position).? How do I convert these into a factors for analysis?

Simple question maybe, but it's not when you can't find the answer!

Thank you,

Josh
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Michael Dewey <lists at dewey.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
Dear Joshua

 It would also help if you told us what your scientific question was. At the moment we know what R commands you used and have seen the head of your dataset but not why you are doing it.

 I would summarise what you have given us as

 1 - most ID only occur once
 2 - goal keepers do worse than outfield players
 3 - older people (presumably in fact age is in years as a continuous variable) do better
On 27/04/2015 12:42, John Kane wrote:
John Kane
 Kingston ON Canada

	 -----Original Message-----
 From: joshuamichaeldixon at gmail.com
 Sent: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 08:54:51 +0100
 To: thierry.onkelinx at inbo.be
 Subject: Re: [R] Help Interpreting Linear Mixed Model

 Hello Thierry,

 No, this isn't homework. Not that young unfortunately.

 A few years ago a friend of mine and her daughter were neck-in-neck on who got their Ph.D first. What's this "not that young" business?

 BTW, a better way to supply sample data is to use the dput() command.

 Do a dput(mydata), copy the results into the email and you have supplied us with an exact copy of your data.

 It is possible for many reasons that I will not read in your data, as you supplied it, in the format you have it in.? This can lead to real confusion.

	 Josh

	 On 27 Apr 2015, at 08:06, Thierry Onkelinx <thierry.onkelinx at inbo.be>
 wrote:

 Dear Josh,

 Is this homework? Because the list has a no homework policy.

 Best regards,

 ir. Thierry Onkelinx
 Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature
 and Forest
 team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
 Kliniekstraat 25
 1070 Anderlecht
 Belgium

 To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more
 than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to
 say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
 The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner
 The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not
 ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of
 data. ~ John Tukey

 2015-04-27 2:26 GMT+02:00 Joshua Dixon <joshuamichaeldixon at gmail.com>:

	 Hello!

 Very new to R (10 days), and I've run the linear mixed model, below.
 Attempting to interpret what it means...? What do I need to look for?
 Residuals, correlations of fixed effects?!

 How would I look at very specific interactions, such as PREMIER_LEAGUE
 (Level) 18 (AgeGr) GK (Position) mean difference to CHAMPIONSHIP 18
 GK?

 For reference my data set looks like this:

 Id Level AgeGr? ?Position Height Weight BMI YoYo
 7451 CHAMPIONSHIP 14 M NA 63 NA 80
 148 PREMIER_LEAGUE 16 D NA 64 NA 80
 10393 CONFERENCE 10 D NA 36 NA 160
 10200 CHAMPIONSHIP 10 F NA 46 NA 160
 1961 LEAGUE_TWO 13 GK NA 67 NA 160
 10428 CHAMPIONSHIP 10 GK NA 40 NA 160
 10541 LEAGUE_ONE 10 F NA 25 NA 160
 10012 CHAMPIONSHIP 10 GK NA 30 NA 160
 9895 CHAMPIONSHIP 10 D NA 36 NA 160

 Many thanks in advance for time and help.? Really appreciate it.

 Josh

	 summary(lmer(YoYo~AgeGr+Position+(1|Id)))

 Linear mixed model fit by REML ['lmerMod']
 Formula: YoYo ~ AgeGr + Position + (1 | Id)

 REML criterion at convergence: 125712.2

 Scaled residuals:
 ? ? ?Min? ? ? 1Q? Median? ? ? 3Q? ? ?Max
 -3.4407 -0.5288 -0.0874? 0.4531? 4.8242

 Random effects:
 ? Groups? ?Name? ? ? ? Variance Std.Dev.
 ? Id? ? ? ?(Intercept) 15300? ? 123.7
 ? Residual? ? ? ? ? ? ?16530? ? 128.6
 Number of obs: 9609, groups:? Id, 6071

 Fixed effects:
 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Estimate Std. Error t value
 (Intercept) -521.6985? ? 16.8392? -30.98
 AgeGr? ? ? ? ?62.6786? ? ?0.9783? ?64.07
 PositionD? ? 139.4682? ? ?7.8568? ?17.75
 PositionM? ? 141.2227? ? ?7.7072? ?18.32
 PositionF? ? 135.1241? ? ?8.1911? ?16.50

 Correlation of Fixed Effects:
 ? ? ? ? ? ?(Intr) AgeGr? PostnD PostnM
 AgeGr? ? ?-0.910
 PositionD -0.359 -0.009
 PositionM -0.375? 0.001? 0.810
 PositionF -0.349 -0.003? 0.756? 0.782

	 model=lmer(YoYo~AgeGr+Position+(1|Id))
 summary(glht(model,linfct=mcp(Position="Tukey")))

 ? Simultaneous Tests for General Linear Hypotheses

 Multiple Comparisons of Means: Tukey Contrasts

 Fit: lmer(formula = YoYo ~ AgeGr + Position + (1 | Id))

 Linear Hypotheses:
 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)
 D - GK == 0? 139.468? ? ? 7.857? 17.751? ?<1e-04 ***
 M - GK == 0? 141.223? ? ? 7.707? 18.323? ?<1e-04 ***
 F - GK == 0? 135.124? ? ? 8.191? 16.496? ?<1e-04 ***
 M - D == 0? ? ?1.754? ? ? 4.799? ?0.366? ? 0.983
 F - D == 0? ? -4.344? ? ? 5.616? -0.774? ? 0.862
 F - M == 0? ? -6.099? ? ? 5.267? -1.158? ? 0.645
 ---
 Signif. codes:? 0 ?***? 0.001 ?**? 0.01 ?*? 0.05 ?.? 0.1 ? ? 1
 (Adjusted p values reported -- single-step method)

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Thanks John!

This ok?
structure(list(Id = c(7451L, 148L, 10393L, 10200L, 1961L, 10428L,
10541L, 10012L, 9895L, 10626L, 1151L, 8775L, 10083L, 6217L, 90L,
10168L, 10291L, 8549L, 3451L, 10003L, 5907L, 10136L, 6182L, 6315L,
10015L, 9956L, 2040L, 4710L, 10747L, 6787L, 1222L, 10757L, 2892L,
117L, 10328L, 10503L, 768L, 2979L, 1961L, 10520L, 10498L, 3018L,
10335L, 2448L, 9027L, 362L, 8499L, 10603L, 9489L, 2124L, 707L,
8501L, 4908L, 9905L, 3000L, 2819L, 9973L, 10550L, 9921L, 10639L,
8771L, 10121L, 32L, 9935L, 9299L, 3246L, 682L, 10325L, 6741L,
3295L, 5270L, 727L, 8500L, 50L, 4705L, 3018L, 787L, 2953L, 1391L,
3682L, 7974L, 5023L, 652L, 727L, 679L, 10212L, 9488L, 9987L,
10039L, 5025L, 250L, 2539L, 787L, 3000L, 1151L, 8946L, 6177L,
3296L, 250L, 498L), Level = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,
1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,
1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,
1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,
1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,
1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,
1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L), .Label =
c("CHAMPIONSHIP",
"CONFERENCE", "LEAGUE_ONE", "LEAGUE_TWO", "PREMIER_LEAGUE"), class =
"factor"),
    AgeGr = c(14L, 16L, 10L, 10L, 13L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L,
    14L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 12L, 10L, 10L, 12L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L,
    12L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 15L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 12L,
    10L, 10L, 13L, 10L, 13L, 11L, 11L, 13L, 12L, 11L, 12L, 14L,
    13L, 13L, 13L, 13L, 12L, 11L, 15L, 11L, 14L, 13L, 11L, 11L,
    11L, 12L, 14L, 12L, 13L, 11L, 13L, 15L, 11L, 13L, 13L, 13L,
    14L, 13L, 13L, 12L, 13L, 13L, 13L, 14L, 12L, 14L, 13L, 13L,
    13L, 13L, 13L, 12L, 13L, 14L, 13L, 14L, 13L, 14L, 13L, 14L,
    14L, 13L, 14L, 13L, 13L, 13L), Position = structure(c(4L,
    1L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 2L, 3L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 4L, 3L, 2L, 3L,
    4L, 3L, 4L, 2L, 4L, 2L, 3L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 4L, 4L, 2L, 4L, 4L,
    2L, 1L, 4L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 4L, 3L, 1L, 4L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 1L,
    1L, 3L, 1L, 3L, 4L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 1L, 3L, 1L,
    2L, 2L, 2L, 4L, 4L, 2L, 4L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 4L, 4L, 1L, 1L, 1L,
    2L, 2L, 4L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 4L, 1L, 3L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 2L,
    2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 4L, 1L, 4L, 2L, 2L), .Label = c("D", "F",
    "GK", "M"), class = "factor"), Height = c(NA, NA, NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 151L, NA,
    154L, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 156L, NA,
    147L, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 138L, 172L, NA, NA, 150L, NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 140L, 153L, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
    158L, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 156L), Weight = c(63,
    64, 36, 46, 67, 40, 25, 30, 36, 33, 61, 31, 29, 34, 47, 38,
    32, 44, 32, 32, 30, 34, 51, 34, 28, 27, 33, 31, 28, 44, 37,
    46, 26, 42, 32, 32, 43, 31, 72, 27, 30, 55, 53, 50, 51, 55,
    48.6, 49, 48, 64, 35, 32, 55, 32, 50, 61, 42, 33, 37, 45,
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    NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 16.9, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
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    200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L,
    200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L,
    200L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L,
    240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L,
    240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L,
    240L, 240L, 240L, 240L)), .Names = c("Id", "Level", "AgeGr",
"Position", "Height", "Weight", "BMI", "YoYo"), row.names = c(NA,
100L), class = "data.frame")
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:43 PM, John Kane <jrkrideau at inbox.com> wrote:

            

  
  
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Looks great.  How come so many NA's in Height and BMI? Just no data available?

 str(dat1)
'data.frame':	100 obs. of  8 variables:
 $ Id      : int  7451 148 10393 10200 1961 10428 10541 10012 9895 10626 ...
 $ Level   : Factor w/ 5 levels "CHAMPIONSHIP",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
 $ AgeGr   : int  14 16 10 10 13 10 10 10 10 10 ...
 $ Position: Factor w/ 4 levels "D","F","GK","M": 4 1 1 2 3 3 2 3 1 1 ...
 $ Height  : int  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 $ Weight  : num  63 64 36 46 67 40 25 30 36 33 ...
 $ BMI     : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 $ YoYo    : int  80 80 160 160 160 160 160 160 160 160 ...

John Kane
Kingston ON Canada

-----Original Message-----
From: joshuamichaeldixon at gmail.com
Sent: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 23:35:13 +0100
To: jrkrideau at inbox.com
Subject: Re: [R] Help Interpreting Linear Mixed Model

Thanks John!

This ok?
structure(list(Id = c(7451L, 148L, 10393L, 10200L, 1961L, 10428L,?

10541L, 10012L, 9895L, 10626L, 1151L, 8775L, 10083L, 6217L, 90L,?

10168L, 10291L, 8549L, 3451L, 10003L, 5907L, 10136L, 6182L, 6315L,?

10015L, 9956L, 2040L, 4710L, 10747L, 6787L, 1222L, 10757L, 2892L,?

117L, 10328L, 10503L, 768L, 2979L, 1961L, 10520L, 10498L, 3018L,?

10335L, 2448L, 9027L, 362L, 8499L, 10603L, 9489L, 2124L, 707L,?

8501L, 4908L, 9905L, 3000L, 2819L, 9973L, 10550L, 9921L, 10639L,?

8771L, 10121L, 32L, 9935L, 9299L, 3246L, 682L, 10325L, 6741L,?

3295L, 5270L, 727L, 8500L, 50L, 4705L, 3018L, 787L, 2953L, 1391L,?

3682L, 7974L, 5023L, 652L, 727L, 679L, 10212L, 9488L, 9987L,?

10039L, 5025L, 250L, 2539L, 787L, 3000L, 1151L, 8946L, 6177L,?

3296L, 250L, 498L), Level = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,?

1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,?

1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,?

1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,?

1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,?

1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,?

1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L), .Label = c("CHAMPIONSHIP",?

"CONFERENCE", "LEAGUE_ONE", "LEAGUE_TWO", "PREMIER_LEAGUE"), class = "factor"),?

? ? AgeGr = c(14L, 16L, 10L, 10L, 13L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L,?

? ? 14L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 12L, 10L, 10L, 12L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L,?

? ? 12L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 15L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 12L,?

? ? 10L, 10L, 13L, 10L, 13L, 11L, 11L, 13L, 12L, 11L, 12L, 14L,?

? ? 13L, 13L, 13L, 13L, 12L, 11L, 15L, 11L, 14L, 13L, 11L, 11L,?

? ? 11L, 12L, 14L, 12L, 13L, 11L, 13L, 15L, 11L, 13L, 13L, 13L,?

? ? 14L, 13L, 13L, 12L, 13L, 13L, 13L, 14L, 12L, 14L, 13L, 13L,?

? ? 13L, 13L, 13L, 12L, 13L, 14L, 13L, 14L, 13L, 14L, 13L, 14L,?

? ? 14L, 13L, 14L, 13L, 13L, 13L), Position = structure(c(4L,?

? ? 1L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 2L, 3L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 4L, 3L, 2L, 3L,?

? ? 4L, 3L, 4L, 2L, 4L, 2L, 3L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 4L, 4L, 2L, 4L, 4L,?

? ? 2L, 1L, 4L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 4L, 3L, 1L, 4L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 1L,?

? ? 1L, 3L, 1L, 3L, 4L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 1L, 3L, 1L,?

? ? 2L, 2L, 2L, 4L, 4L, 2L, 4L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 4L, 4L, 1L, 1L, 1L,?

? ? 2L, 2L, 4L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 4L, 1L, 3L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 2L,?

? ? 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 4L, 1L, 4L, 2L, 2L), .Label = c("D", "F",?

? ? "GK", "M"), class = "factor"), Height = c(NA, NA, NA, NA,?

? ? NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,?

? ? NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,?

? ? NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 151L, NA,?

? ? 154L, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 156L, NA,?

? ? 147L, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 138L, 172L, NA, NA, 150L, NA, NA,?

? ? NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 140L, 153L, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,?

? ? 158L, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 156L), Weight = c(63,?

? ? 64, 36, 46, 67, 40, 25, 30, 36, 33, 61, 31, 29, 34, 47, 38,?

? ? 32, 44, 32, 32, 30, 34, 51, 34, 28, 27, 33, 31, 28, 44, 37,?

? ? 46, 26, 42, 32, 32, 43, 31, 72, 27, 30, 55, 53, 50, 51, 55,?

? ? 48.6, 49, 48, 64, 35, 32, 55, 32, 50, 61, 42, 33, 37, 45,?

? ? 45, 50, 36, 33, 49, 59, 42, 43, 35.1, 66.9, 52, 47, 40, 38,?

? ? 45, 53, 44, 54, 39, 62, 33, 53.8, 42, 46, 39, 48, 39, 54,?

? ? 40, 42.4, 50, 48, 46, 52, 58, 40, 46, 51, 54, 42), BMI = c(NA,?

? ? NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,?

? ? NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,?

? ? NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,?

? ? 21.2, NA, 20.24, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,?

? ? NA, 18.49, NA, 16.66, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 18.57, 22.61, NA,?

? ? NA, 17.77, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 16.84, 22.86, NA,?

? ? NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 16.9, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,?

? ? NA, NA, 17.26), YoYo = c(80L, 80L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L,?

? ? 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L,?

? ? 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L,?

? ? 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L,?

? ? 160L, 160L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L,?

? ? 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L,?

? ? 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L,?

? ? 200L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L,?

? ? 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L,?

? ? 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L,?

? ? 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L)), .Names = c("Id", "Level", "AgeGr",?

"Position", "Height", "Weight", "BMI", "YoYo"), row.names = c(NA,?

100L), class = "data.frame")
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:43 PM, John Kane <jrkrideau at inbox.com> wrote:
Hi Josh,

 Just a sample? is usually? fine. As long as it cover a representative (must be time for dinner---I was going to type reprehensibe) sample of the data then something like dput(head(mydata, 100) ) works well.

 Kingston ON Canada

 -----Original Message-----
 From: joshuamichaeldixon at gmail.com

Sent: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:30:39 +0100
 To: lists at dewey.myzen.co.uk
 Subject: Re: [R] Help Interpreting Linear Mixed Model

 Apologies for my ignorance!

 Thierry - thank you for the reading.? I'll look into those ASAP!

 John - The data set I have is quite large, when using the dput() command I'm unsure if it actually fits the whole output into the console.? I can't scroll up far enough to see the actual command.? I can paste what is there if that may help?? The bottom line:?

 Names = c("Id", "Level", "AgeGr", "Position", "Height", "Weight", "BMI", "YoYo"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -9689L))

 Michael - Essentially, I'm looking for differences between "YoYo" outcome for "Positions", "Levels" and accounting for repeated measures using "Id" as a random factor.? So I was able to figure out points 2 and 3.

 I've searched for definitions of "Scaled residuals",?"Random effects",?"Fixed effects",?"Correlation of Fixed Effects".? However, I'm confused at the different interpretations I've found.? Or quite possibly, I'm just confused...? What should I be?looking?out for in these variables?

 I've tried to take my analysis smaller, and just look at specifics, to make it simpler.? Such as, comparing YoYo (outcome score) for a Premier_League (Level), 22 (AgeGr) F (Position) with a?Premier_League (Level), 22 (AgeGr) M (Position).? How do I convert these into a factors for analysis?

 Simple question maybe, but it's not when you can't find the answer!

 Thank you,

 Josh
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Michael Dewey <lists at dewey.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
? ? ? ? Dear Joshua

 ?It would also help if you told us what your scientific question was. At the moment we know what R commands you used and have seen the head of your dataset but not why you are doing it.

 ?I would summarise what you have given us as

 ?1 - most ID only occur once
 ?2 - goal keepers do worse than outfield players
 ?3 - older people (presumably in fact age is in years as a continuous variable) do better
?On 27/04/2015 12:42, John Kane wrote:
?John Kane
 ?Kingston ON Canada

 ? ? ? ? ?-----Original Message-----
 ?From: joshuamichaeldixon at gmail.com
 ?Sent: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 08:54:51 +0100
 ?To: thierry.onkelinx at inbo.be
 ?Subject: Re: [R] Help Interpreting Linear Mixed Model

 ?Hello Thierry,

 ?No, this isn't homework. Not that young unfortunately.

 ?A few years ago a friend of mine and her daughter were neck-in-neck on who got their Ph.D first. What's this "not that young" business?

 ?BTW, a better way to supply sample data is to use the dput() command.

 ?Do a dput(mydata), copy the results into the email and you have supplied us with an exact copy of your data.

 ?It is possible for many reasons that I will not read in your data, as you supplied it, in the format you have it in.? This can lead to real confusion.

 ? ? ? ? ?Josh

 ? ? ? ? ?On 27 Apr 2015, at 08:06, Thierry Onkelinx <thierry.onkelinx at inbo.be>
?wrote:
?Dear Josh,

 ?Is this homework? Because the list has a no homework policy.

 ?Best regards,

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 ?2015-04-27 2:26 GMT+02:00 Joshua Dixon <joshuamichaeldixon at gmail.com>:

 ? ? ? ? ?Hello!

 ?Very new to R (10 days), and I've run the linear mixed model, below.
 ?Attempting to interpret what it means...? What do I need to look for?
 ?Residuals, correlations of fixed effects?!

 ?How would I look at very specific interactions, such as PREMIER_LEAGUE
 ?(Level) 18 (AgeGr) GK (Position) mean difference to CHAMPIONSHIP 18
 ?GK?

 ?For reference my data set looks like this:

 ?Id Level AgeGr? ?Position Height Weight BMI YoYo
 ?7451 CHAMPIONSHIP 14 M NA 63 NA 80
 ?148 PREMIER_LEAGUE 16 D NA 64 NA 80
 ?10393 CONFERENCE 10 D NA 36 NA 160
 ?10200 CHAMPIONSHIP 10 F NA 46 NA 160
 ?1961 LEAGUE_TWO 13 GK NA 67 NA 160
 ?10428 CHAMPIONSHIP 10 GK NA 40 NA 160
 ?10541 LEAGUE_ONE 10 F NA 25 NA 160
 ?10012 CHAMPIONSHIP 10 GK NA 30 NA 160
 ?9895 CHAMPIONSHIP 10 D NA 36 NA 160

 ?Many thanks in advance for time and help.? Really appreciate it.

 ?Josh

 ? ? ? ? ?summary(lmer(YoYo~AgeGr+Position+(1|Id)))

 ?Linear mixed model fit by REML ['lmerMod']
 ?Formula: YoYo ~ AgeGr + Position + (1 | Id)

 ?REML criterion at convergence: 125712.2

 ?Scaled residuals:
 ?? ? ?Min? ? ? 1Q? Median? ? ? 3Q? ? ?Max
 ?-3.4407 -0.5288 -0.0874? 0.4531? 4.8242

 ?Random effects:
 ?? Groups? ?Name? ? ? ? Variance Std.Dev.
 ?? Id? ? ? ?(Intercept) 15300? ? 123.7
 ?? Residual? ? ? ? ? ? ?16530? ? 128.6
 ?Number of obs: 9609, groups:? Id, 6071

 ?Fixed effects:
 ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? Estimate Std. Error t value
 ?(Intercept) -521.6985? ? 16.8392? -30.98
 ?AgeGr? ? ? ? ?62.6786? ? ?0.9783? ?64.07
 ?PositionD? ? 139.4682? ? ?7.8568? ?17.75
 ?PositionM? ? 141.2227? ? ?7.7072? ?18.32
 ?PositionF? ? 135.1241? ? ?8.1911? ?16.50

 ?Correlation of Fixed Effects:
 ?? ? ? ? ? ?(Intr) AgeGr? PostnD PostnM
 ?AgeGr? ? ?-0.910
 ?PositionD -0.359 -0.009
 ?PositionM -0.375? 0.001? 0.810
 ?PositionF -0.349 -0.003? 0.756? 0.782

 ? ? ? ? ?model=lmer(YoYo~AgeGr+Position+(1|Id))
 ?summary(glht(model,linfct=mcp(Position="Tukey")))

 ?? Simultaneous Tests for General Linear Hypotheses

 ?Multiple Comparisons of Means: Tukey Contrasts

 ?Fit: lmer(formula = YoYo ~ AgeGr + Position + (1 | Id))

 ?Linear Hypotheses:
 ?? ? ? ? ? ? ?Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)
 ?D - GK == 0? 139.468? ? ? 7.857? 17.751? ?<1e-04 ***
 ?M - GK == 0? 141.223? ? ? 7.707? 18.323? ?<1e-04 ***
 ?F - GK == 0? 135.124? ? ? 8.191? 16.496? ?<1e-04 ***
 ?M - D == 0? ? ?1.754? ? ? 4.799? ?0.366? ? 0.983
 ?F - D == 0? ? -4.344? ? ? 5.616? -0.774? ? 0.862
 ?F - M == 0? ? -6.099? ? ? 5.267? -1.158? ? 0.645
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#
*John* -  Lot's of missing data for height unfortunately.  Which is needed
for BMI calculation.

How would I look compare very specific parts of the data, i.e. comparing
YoYo outcomes between "F" and "M" position that are both in the
PREMIER_LEAGUE Level?

Still can't figure it out!

Josh
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:39 AM, John Kane <jrkrideau at inbox.com> wrote:

            

  
  
#
*Edit*

Where "F" position are in the same AgeGr as well.

Thanks,

Josh

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 9:25 PM, Joshua Dixon <joshuamichaeldixon at gmail.com>
wrote:

  
  
#
You are posting in HTML and the R-help list is a plain text one. Would you reset to plain in your e-mail editor before posting, please?

 For security reasons R-help strips the HTML version and, we on the list,  receive the resulting plain text.  This, often,  mangles code to the point that it is almost indecipherable.   

Re your question, if I understood it. Something like this should do it
 fm  <-  subset(dat1, Level =="PREMIER_LEAGUE" &  (Position ==  "F" | Position == "m"))

This now gives you a data.frame with only those rows that match your criteria.  
Untested since all 100 rows are CHAMPIONSHIP.  No fPREMIER_LEAGUE in your first 100 rows of data.  I should have warned you about this but it was late and I didn't think through your statement about "The data set I have is quite large".  

Here is an example of how to do some random sampling of your data.frame, which I should have mentioned yesterday

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8273313/random-rows-in-dataframe-in-r

But in any case the idea is just to subset the data and go from there.  Just type ?subset for help.

##   "Where "F" position are in the same AgeGr as well."

You should be able to add a AgeGr = 99 in the subset statement.

fm  <-  subset(dat1, Level =="PREMIER_LEAGUE" & AgeGr = 10 & (Position ==  "F" | Position == "m"))

should work. Untested and again it's almost dinner time so no guarantees.

I think that there are faster and better ways to do this but this is fairly basic and "relatively' self-documenting.

After that, it depends on what you want to do with the data.

I hope this helps


John Kane
Kingston ON Canada

-----Original Message-----
From: joshuamichaeldixon at gmail.com
Sent: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 21:26:31 +0100
To: jrkrideau at inbox.com
Subject: Re: [R] Help Interpreting Linear Mixed Model

*Edit*?

Where "F" position are in the same AgeGr as well.

Thanks,

Josh
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 9:25 PM, Joshua Dixon <joshuamichaeldixon at gmail.com> wrote:
John - ?Lot's of missing data for height unfortunately.? Which is needed for BMI calculation. ?

How would I look compare very specific parts of the data, i.e. comparing YoYo outcomes between "F" and "M" position that are both in the PREMIER_LEAGUE Level?

Still can't figure it out!

Josh
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:39 AM, John Kane <jrkrideau at inbox.com> wrote:
Looks great.? How come so many NA's in Height and BMI? Just no data available?

 ?str(dat1)
 'data.frame':? ?100 obs. of? 8 variables:
 ?$ Id? ? ? : int? 7451 148 10393 10200 1961 10428 10541 10012 9895 10626 ...
 ?$ Level? ?: Factor w/ 5 levels "CHAMPIONSHIP",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
 ?$ AgeGr? ?: int? 14 16 10 10 13 10 10 10 10 10 ...
 ?$ Position: Factor w/ 4 levels "D","F","GK","M": 4 1 1 2 3 3 2 3 1 1 ...
 ?$ Height? : int? NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 ?$ Weight? : num? 63 64 36 46 67 40 25 30 36 33 ...
 ?$ BMI? ? ?: num? NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 ?$ YoYo? ? : int? 80 80 160 160 160 160 160 160 160 160 ...

 John Kane
 Kingston ON Canada

 -----Original Message-----
 From: joshuamichaeldixon at gmail.com

Sent: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 23:35:13 +0100
 To: jrkrideau at inbox.com
 Subject: Re: [R] Help Interpreting Linear Mixed Model

 Thanks John!

 This ok?

 > dput(head(data, 100))

 structure(list(Id = c(7451L, 148L, 10393L, 10200L, 1961L, 10428L,?

 10541L, 10012L, 9895L, 10626L, 1151L, 8775L, 10083L, 6217L, 90L,?

 10168L, 10291L, 8549L, 3451L, 10003L, 5907L, 10136L, 6182L, 6315L,?

 10015L, 9956L, 2040L, 4710L, 10747L, 6787L, 1222L, 10757L, 2892L,?

 117L, 10328L, 10503L, 768L, 2979L, 1961L, 10520L, 10498L, 3018L,?

 10335L, 2448L, 9027L, 362L, 8499L, 10603L, 9489L, 2124L, 707L,?

 8501L, 4908L, 9905L, 3000L, 2819L, 9973L, 10550L, 9921L, 10639L,?

 8771L, 10121L, 32L, 9935L, 9299L, 3246L, 682L, 10325L, 6741L,?

 3295L, 5270L, 727L, 8500L, 50L, 4705L, 3018L, 787L, 2953L, 1391L,?

 3682L, 7974L, 5023L, 652L, 727L, 679L, 10212L, 9488L, 9987L,?

 10039L, 5025L, 250L, 2539L, 787L, 3000L, 1151L, 8946L, 6177L,?

 3296L, 250L, 498L), Level = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,?

 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,?

 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,?

 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,?

 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,?

 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,?

 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L), .Label = c("CHAMPIONSHIP",?

 "CONFERENCE", "LEAGUE_ONE", "LEAGUE_TWO", "PREMIER_LEAGUE"), class = "factor"),?

 ? ? AgeGr = c(14L, 16L, 10L, 10L, 13L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L,?

 ? ? 14L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 12L, 10L, 10L, 12L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L,?

 ? ? 12L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 15L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 12L,?

 ? ? 10L, 10L, 13L, 10L, 13L, 11L, 11L, 13L, 12L, 11L, 12L, 14L,?

 ? ? 13L, 13L, 13L, 13L, 12L, 11L, 15L, 11L, 14L, 13L, 11L, 11L,?

 ? ? 11L, 12L, 14L, 12L, 13L, 11L, 13L, 15L, 11L, 13L, 13L, 13L,?

 ? ? 14L, 13L, 13L, 12L, 13L, 13L, 13L, 14L, 12L, 14L, 13L, 13L,?

 ? ? 13L, 13L, 13L, 12L, 13L, 14L, 13L, 14L, 13L, 14L, 13L, 14L,?

 ? ? 14L, 13L, 14L, 13L, 13L, 13L), Position = structure(c(4L,?

 ? ? 1L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 2L, 3L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 4L, 3L, 2L, 3L,?

 ? ? 4L, 3L, 4L, 2L, 4L, 2L, 3L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 4L, 4L, 2L, 4L, 4L,?

 ? ? 2L, 1L, 4L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 4L, 3L, 1L, 4L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 1L,?

 ? ? 1L, 3L, 1L, 3L, 4L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 1L, 3L, 1L,?

 ? ? 2L, 2L, 2L, 4L, 4L, 2L, 4L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 4L, 4L, 1L, 1L, 1L,?

 ? ? 2L, 2L, 4L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 4L, 1L, 3L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 2L,?

 ? ? 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 4L, 1L, 4L, 2L, 2L), .Label = c("D", "F",?

 ? ? "GK", "M"), class = "factor"), Height = c(NA, NA, NA, NA,?

 ? ? NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,?

 ? ? NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,?

 ? ? NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 151L, NA,?

 ? ? 154L, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 156L, NA,?

 ? ? 147L, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 138L, 172L, NA, NA, 150L, NA, NA,?

 ? ? NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 140L, 153L, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,?

 ? ? 158L, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 156L), Weight = c(63,?

 ? ? 64, 36, 46, 67, 40, 25, 30, 36, 33, 61, 31, 29, 34, 47, 38,?

 ? ? 32, 44, 32, 32, 30, 34, 51, 34, 28, 27, 33, 31, 28, 44, 37,?

 ? ? 46, 26, 42, 32, 32, 43, 31, 72, 27, 30, 55, 53, 50, 51, 55,?

 ? ? 48.6, 49, 48, 64, 35, 32, 55, 32, 50, 61, 42, 33, 37, 45,?

 ? ? 45, 50, 36, 33, 49, 59, 42, 43, 35.1, 66.9, 52, 47, 40, 38,?

 ? ? 45, 53, 44, 54, 39, 62, 33, 53.8, 42, 46, 39, 48, 39, 54,?

 ? ? 40, 42.4, 50, 48, 46, 52, 58, 40, 46, 51, 54, 42), BMI = c(NA,?

 ? ? NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,?

 ? ? NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,?

 ? ? NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,?

 ? ? 21.2, NA, 20.24, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,?

 ? ? NA, 18.49, NA, 16.66, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 18.57, 22.61, NA,?

 ? ? NA, 17.77, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 16.84, 22.86, NA,?

 ? ? NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 16.9, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,?

 ? ? NA, NA, 17.26), YoYo = c(80L, 80L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L,?

 ? ? 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L,?

 ? ? 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L,?

 ? ? 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L, 160L,?

 ? ? 160L, 160L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L,?

 ? ? 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L,?

 ? ? 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L, 200L,?

 ? ? 200L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L,?

 ? ? 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L,?

 ? ? 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L,?

 ? ? 240L, 240L, 240L, 240L)), .Names = c("Id", "Level", "AgeGr",?

 "Position", "Height", "Weight", "BMI", "YoYo"), row.names = c(NA,?

 100L), class = "data.frame")
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:43 PM, John Kane <jrkrideau at inbox.com> wrote:
?Hi Josh,

 ?Just a sample? is usually? fine. As long as it cover a representative (must be time for dinner---I was going to type reprehensibe) sample of the data then something like dput(head(mydata, 100) ) works well.

 ?Kingston ON Canada

 ?-----Original Message-----
 ?From: joshuamichaeldixon at gmail.com

 Sent: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:30:39 +0100
 ?To: lists at dewey.myzen.co.uk
 ?Subject: Re: [R] Help Interpreting Linear Mixed Model

 ?Apologies for my ignorance!

 ?Thierry - thank you for the reading.? I'll look into those ASAP!

 ?John - The data set I have is quite large, when using the dput() command I'm unsure if it actually fits the whole output into the console.? I can't scroll up far enough to see the actual command.? I can paste what is there if that may help?? The bottom line:?

 ?Names = c("Id", "Level", "AgeGr", "Position", "Height", "Weight", "BMI", "YoYo"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -9689L))

 ?Michael - Essentially, I'm looking for differences between "YoYo" outcome for "Positions", "Levels" and accounting for repeated measures using "Id" as a random factor.? So I was able to figure out points 2 and 3.

 ?I've searched for definitions of "Scaled residuals",?"Random effects",?"Fixed effects",?"Correlation of Fixed Effects".? However, I'm confused at the different interpretations I've found.? Or quite possibly, I'm just confused...? What should I be?looking?out for in these variables?

 ?I've tried to take my analysis smaller, and just look at specifics, to make it simpler.? Such as, comparing YoYo (outcome score) for a Premier_League (Level), 22 (AgeGr) F (Position) with a?Premier_League (Level), 22 (AgeGr) M (Position).? How do I convert these into a factors for analysis?

 ?Simple question maybe, but it's not when you can't find the answer!

 ?Thank you,

 ?Josh
?On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Michael Dewey <lists at dewey.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
?? ? ? ? Dear Joshua

 ??It would also help if you told us what your scientific question was. At the moment we know what R commands you used and have seen the head of your dataset but not why you are doing it.

 ??I would summarise what you have given us as

 ??1 - most ID only occur once
 ??2 - goal keepers do worse than outfield players
 ??3 - older people (presumably in fact age is in years as a continuous variable) do better
??On 27/04/2015 12:42, John Kane wrote:
??John Kane
 ??Kingston ON Canada

 ?? ? ? ? ?-----Original Message-----
 ??From: joshuamichaeldixon at gmail.com
 ??Sent: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 08:54:51 +0100
 ??To: thierry.onkelinx at inbo.be
 ??Subject: Re: [R] Help Interpreting Linear Mixed Model

 ??Hello Thierry,

 ??No, this isn't homework. Not that young unfortunately.

 ??A few years ago a friend of mine and her daughter were neck-in-neck on who got their Ph.D first. What's this "not that young" business?

 ??BTW, a better way to supply sample data is to use the dput() command.

 ??Do a dput(mydata), copy the results into the email and you have supplied us with an exact copy of your data.

 ??It is possible for many reasons that I will not read in your data, as you supplied it, in the format you have it in.? This can lead to real confusion.

 ?? ? ? ? ?Josh

 ?? ? ? ? ?On 27 Apr 2015, at 08:06, Thierry Onkelinx <thierry.onkelinx at inbo.be>
??wrote:
??Dear Josh,

 ??Is this homework? Because the list has a no homework policy.

 ??Best regards,

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 ??than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to
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 ??data. ~ John Tukey

 ??2015-04-27 2:26 GMT+02:00 Joshua Dixon <joshuamichaeldixon at gmail.com>:

 ?? ? ? ? ?Hello!

 ??Very new to R (10 days), and I've run the linear mixed model, below.
 ??Attempting to interpret what it means...? What do I need to look for?
 ??Residuals, correlations of fixed effects?!

 ??How would I look at very specific interactions, such as PREMIER_LEAGUE
 ??(Level) 18 (AgeGr) GK (Position) mean difference to CHAMPIONSHIP 18
 ??GK?

 ??For reference my data set looks like this:

 ??Id Level AgeGr? ?Position Height Weight BMI YoYo
 ??7451 CHAMPIONSHIP 14 M NA 63 NA 80
 ??148 PREMIER_LEAGUE 16 D NA 64 NA 80
 ??10393 CONFERENCE 10 D NA 36 NA 160
 ??10200 CHAMPIONSHIP 10 F NA 46 NA 160
 ??1961 LEAGUE_TWO 13 GK NA 67 NA 160
 ??10428 CHAMPIONSHIP 10 GK NA 40 NA 160
 ??10541 LEAGUE_ONE 10 F NA 25 NA 160
 ??10012 CHAMPIONSHIP 10 GK NA 30 NA 160
 ??9895 CHAMPIONSHIP 10 D NA 36 NA 160

 ??Many thanks in advance for time and help.? Really appreciate it.

 ??Josh

 ?? ? ? ? ?summary(lmer(YoYo~AgeGr+Position+(1|Id)))

 ??Linear mixed model fit by REML ['lmerMod']
 ??Formula: YoYo ~ AgeGr + Position + (1 | Id)

 ??REML criterion at convergence: 125712.2

 ??Scaled residuals:
 ??? ? ?Min? ? ? 1Q? Median? ? ? 3Q? ? ?Max
 ??-3.4407 -0.5288 -0.0874? 0.4531? 4.8242

 ??Random effects:
 ??? Groups? ?Name? ? ? ? Variance Std.Dev.
 ??? Id? ? ? ?(Intercept) 15300? ? 123.7
 ??? Residual? ? ? ? ? ? ?16530? ? 128.6
 ??Number of obs: 9609, groups:? Id, 6071

 ??Fixed effects:
 ??? ? ? ? ? ? ? Estimate Std. Error t value
 ??(Intercept) -521.6985? ? 16.8392? -30.98
 ??AgeGr? ? ? ? ?62.6786? ? ?0.9783? ?64.07
 ??PositionD? ? 139.4682? ? ?7.8568? ?17.75
 ??PositionM? ? 141.2227? ? ?7.7072? ?18.32
 ??PositionF? ? 135.1241? ? ?8.1911? ?16.50

 ??Correlation of Fixed Effects:
 ??? ? ? ? ? ?(Intr) AgeGr? PostnD PostnM
 ??AgeGr? ? ?-0.910
 ??PositionD -0.359 -0.009
 ??PositionM -0.375? 0.001? 0.810
 ??PositionF -0.349 -0.003? 0.756? 0.782

 ?? ? ? ? ?model=lmer(YoYo~AgeGr+Position+(1|Id))
 ??summary(glht(model,linfct=mcp(Position="Tukey")))

 ??? Simultaneous Tests for General Linear Hypotheses

 ??Multiple Comparisons of Means: Tukey Contrasts

 ??Fit: lmer(formula = YoYo ~ AgeGr + Position + (1 | Id))

 ??Linear Hypotheses:
 ??? ? ? ? ? ? ?Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)
 ??D - GK == 0? 139.468? ? ? 7.857? 17.751? ?<1e-04 ***
 ??M - GK == 0? 141.223? ? ? 7.707? 18.323? ?<1e-04 ***
 ??F - GK == 0? 135.124? ? ? 8.191? 16.496? ?<1e-04 ***
 ??M - D == 0? ? ?1.754? ? ? 4.799? ?0.366? ? 0.983
 ??F - D == 0? ? -4.344? ? ? 5.616? -0.774? ? 0.862
 ??F - M == 0? ? -6.099? ? ? 5.267? -1.158? ? 0.645
 ??---
 ??Signif. codes:? 0 ?***? 0.001 ?**? 0.01 ?*? 0.05 ?.? 0.1 ? ? 1
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