I've made fligner test with the same data, changing the orders of the variables, and this what i get
> fligner.test(rojos~edadysexo*zona*ano*estacion) Fligner-Killeen test of homogeneity of variances data: rojos by edadysexo by zona by ano by estacion Fligner-Killeen:med chi-squared = 15.7651, df = 2, p-value = 0.0003773 > fligner.test(rojos~ano*edadysexo*zona*estacion) Fligner-Killeen test of homogeneity of variances data: rojos by ano by edadysexo by zona by estacion Fligner-Killeen:med chi-squared = 86.5317, df = 3, p-value < 2.2e-16 Different results with the same variables!!! Why? i try to find an answer, but i really surprised ----- Mario Garrido Escudero PhD student Dpto. de Biología Animal, Ecología, Parasitología, Edafología y Qca. Agrícola Universidad de Salamanca -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/different-results-from-fligner-test-tp4283312p4283312.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.