lme nesting/interaction advice
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 07:52:50PM +0100, Federico Calboli wrote:
The main point of my question is, having a 3 way anova (or ancova, if you prefer), with *no* nesting, 2 fixed effects and 1 random effect, why is it so boneheaded difficult to specify a bog standard fully crossed model? I'm not talking about some rarified esoteric model here, we're talking about stuff tought in a first year Biology Stats course here[1]. y ~ effect1 * effect2 * effect3 with effect3 being random (all all the jazz that comes from this fact). I fully apprecciate that the only reasonable F-tests would be for effect1, effect2 and effect1:effect2, but there is no way I can use lme to specify such simple thing without getting the *wrong* denDF. I need light on this topic and I'd say it's a general enough
You _might_ be able to use the kinship package (lmekin, which in turn uses lme) for this. I'm just not sure about the "random regression" (fixed:random) interaction terms. David Duffy,
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