Here is a short example: > dat <- data.frame(x = rnorm(20), a = rep(letters[1:4], 5), b = rep(letters[1:5], each = 4)) > summary(aov(x ~ a*b, dat)) Df Sum Sq Mean Sq a 3 0.8021 0.2674 b 4 3.7175 0.9294 a:b 12 10.5416 0.8785 > summary(aov(x ~ a/b, dat)) Df Sum Sq Mean Sq a 3 0.8021 0.2674 a:b 16 14.2590 0.8912 >
So in your nested case you should not get a mean square for 'Female' at all. The interaction sum of squares in the nested case is the sum of the main effect and interaction in the crossed model case, (as are the degrees of freedom). Although you think of them as different models, in a mathematical sense they are equivalent - you just parcel the degrees of freedom and SSQ a bit differently in the sequential anova. Bill Venables CSIRO Laboratories PO Box 120, Cleveland, 4163 AUSTRALIA Office Phone (email preferred): +61 7 3826 7251 Fax (if absolutely necessary): +61 7 3826 7304 Mobile: +61 4 8819 4402 Home Phone: +61 7 3286 7700 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cmis.csiro.au/bill.venables/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Bolnick Sent: Wednesday, 6 February 2008 2:28 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Nested ANOVA models in R Hi, I'm trying to work through a Nested ANOVA for the following scenario: 20 males were used to fertilize eggs of 4 females per male, so that female is nested within male (80 females used total). Spine length was measured on 11 offspring per family, resulting in 880 measurements on 80 families. I used the following two commands: summary(aov(Spinelength ~ Male*Female)) and summary(aov(Spinelength ~ Male/Female)) I get the same mean squares either way, which doesn't seem right to me. In the former case, the mean square for females should be calculated around the overall mean across all females, whereas the mean square in the latter case should be calculated using deviations from the set of 4 females nested within a given male, right? Of course, it is more appropriate for me to treat each of these as random effects. I know Bates has objections to the SAS-style partitioning variances to obtain F statistics and p-values, and I have read relevant parts of Pinhero and Bates, but how can a specify a nested random effects model that yields p-values for both the males (tested against MS for females) and females nested within males? Thanks, Dan Bolnick Section of Integrative Biology University of Texas at Austin ______________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________ 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.