Dear Alfreda, I'm not suggesting to use ANOVA but to look at the anova table of your gls model. You can get that with anova(your.model).
Thierry ________________________________________ Van: alfreda morinez [alfredamori...@gmail.com] Verzonden: vrijdag 16 december 2011 15:29 Aan: ONKELINX, Thierry CC: r-help@r-project.org Onderwerp: Re: [R] Model design Hi Thierry I looked at running an ANOVA but I have spatial autocorrelation in the data set as indicated by Variograms and significant moran's I i.e the cells closer together are more likely to be similar than expected under a normal distibution - is it possible to make this approach take it into consideration ( through the x/y coordinates of the grass). Is the approach i am using stasitically incorrect or is it doing something similar to a ANOVA but weighting it through the correlation matrix? Thanks On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 2:17 PM, ONKELINX, Thierry <thierry.onkel...@inbo.be> wrote: > Dear Alfreda, > > anova(area_grass) will tell you IF the average grass area is different among > areas. > > If you want to know WHICH areas are different from each other, then you have > to do some multiple comparisons. You can use the multcomp package: e.g. > > library(multcomp) > glht(area_grass, linfct = mcp(AREA = "Tukey")) > > Best regards, > > Thierry > ________________________________________ > Van: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [r-help-boun...@r-project.org] namens > alfreda morinez [alfredamori...@gmail.com] > Verzonden: vrijdag 16 december 2011 14:07 > Aan: r-help@r-project.org > Onderwerp: [R] Model design > > Dear List, > > I am realtively inexperienced so i apologise in advance and ask for > understanding in the simplicity of my question: > > I have data on the amount of grass per km in a cell ( of which i have > lots) "grass" and for each cell i have x/y coordinates - required due > to spatial autocorrelation > > Cells can be classfied in a hierarchical nature into AREAS and STATES > > i.e Cell 1, Cell 2, Cell 3 are all in AREA "A" > > where as Cell 4,5 and 6 are in AREA "B" > > However both area A + B are in state "S1" > > I have lots of these (13000) cells which are classfied into ~2000 > AREA's and ~750 STATE'S > > So my question is do AREA'S differ in the amount of grass they contain > i.e does AREA A contain significantly more grass than AREA B? > > I have modelled this by > > area_grass <- gls(grass~AREA, correlation=corExp(form=~x+y), data = grassland > > I have set the contrasts to options(contrasts = c("contr.treatment", > "contr.poly")) as there are no control groups. > > What i will get ( it is taking ages!) > > is > > AREA A: -0.12.... ** > AREA B: 0.17....* > AREA C.. > > > So can i then say AREA A has significantly less grass than the > average, AREA B significantly more and AREA C is not significantly > different? > > Thanks > > Alfreda > > ______________________________________________ > 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.