I have three columns of data, Xc, Trt and fish. This was a repeated measures design with 6 measurements taken from each of 5 fish. Xc is the actual measurement, Trt is the treatment, and fish is the fish number. Data can be seen below (hopefully it is in the column format). I would like to look for differences between treatments in a repeated measures format. I used the following code
library(nlme) summary(lme(Xc~trt,data=R.exp,random=~1|fish)) This seems to work and I would like to know if 1) this is the right function for my question, if so, then 2) in the summary, value is the first column, but what value is this. I have searched in vain and cannot find the answer. Any help or links to examples would be appreciated greatly. Fixed effects: Xc ~ trt Value Std.Error DF t-value p-value (Intercept) 103.62 2.619657 20 39.55480 0 trtB -33.28 1.991197 20 -16.71356 0 trtC -39.38 1.991197 20 -19.77705 0 trtD -32.60 1.991197 20 -16.37206 0 trtE -47.32 1.991197 20 -23.76460 0 trtF -39.58 1.991197 20 -19.87749 0 Xc Trt fish 109.1 a 1 73 b 1 68.4 c 1 74.8 d 1 60.3 e 1 57 f 1 106 a 2 72.3 b 2 67 c 2 70.6 d 2 58.2 e 2 66.2 f 2 102 a 3 67.1 b 3 61 c 3 68.4 d 3 50.2 e 3 64.7 f 3 105 a 4 76.6 b 4 68.8 c 4 77.7 d 4 61.8 e 4 75.7 f 4 96 a 5 62.7 b 5 56 c 5 63.6 d 5 51 e 5 56.6 f 5 Marlin Keith Cox Ph.D. At-Sea Processor Professorship of Fisheries Biology Science Chair Sheldon Jackson College Sitka, Alaska 99835 907.747.5296 http://www.sheldonjackson.edu [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.