Hello, This one is very perplexing. I have teacher observation data, with factors teacher ID, observer ID, component, grade and subject. When I do this,
aov(data=ratings.prin.22, rating ~ obsid.f + tid.f + subject.f + grade.f + comp.f) I get this: Terms: obsid.f tid.f grade.f comp.f Residuals Sum of Squares 306.23399 221.38173 1.70000 14.52831 279.05780 Deg. of Freedom 74 87 2 9 1406 This looks right. There are about 82 observers so 74 degrees of freedom for obsid.f is OK. But if I do this (just reordering the terms in the formula): aov(data=ratings.prin.22, rating ~ comp.f + grade.f + subject.f + tid.f + obsid.f) I get this: Terms: comp.f grade.f subject.f tid.f obsid.f Residuals Sum of Squares 15.0923 23.3968 5.9982 499.3568 0.0000 279.0578 Deg. of Freedom 9 4 4 152 3 1406 Now obsid.f only has 3 degrees of freedom and the sum of squares is 0.00. Could this be due to the unbalanced design? If someone can explain this to me I would be very grateful. -- Stuart Luppescu -=- slu .at. ccsr.uchicago.edu University of Chicago -=- CCSR 才文と智奈美の父 -=- Kernel 3.2.1-gentoo-r2 Tony Plate: There looks to be a typo in the R-exts manual: [...] Peter Dalgaard: 'svn blame' tells me that this was Brian's addition in rev.35362 [...] Brian D. Ripley: I prefer 'svn praise' myself. Peter Dalgaard: Or 'svn annotate'. I think it depends on what I'm looking for, plus the risk that the author (perpetrator, contributor) might be me... -- Tony Plate, Peter Dalgaard and Brian D. Ripley (about a typo in the ______________________________________________ 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.