On Mar 22, 2012, at 13:29 , Helios de Rosario wrote:

> M3$fattA <- as.factor(M3$fattA)
> 
> Now, type III SS with Anova() only provides sensible results, if the
> factor contrasts are orthogonal, e.g. "contr.sum", "contr.poly", or
> "contr.helmert". This is not the default in R, so you should make it
> explicit:
> 
> f5<-lm(cbind(b1,b2,b3)~fattA,data=M3,
> contrasts=list(fattA="contr.sum"))

Ah, thanks. I did suspect that contrast coding was involved, but nothing 
happened when I tried changing them. Of course, if one of the "factors" 
isn't....

Presumably, things also clear up if you code fattA as rep(c(-1,1),each=4).

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