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Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics (650) 467-7374 "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge is certainly not wisdom." Clifford Stoll On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Kristi Glover <kristi.glo...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi R user, > I am wondering whether I can perform a simple ANOVA analysis in the data in > which I have mean + SE (+- Standard Error) for several groups. > For this one, I calculated upper and lower confidence interval and made > three classes for each group (mean, upper and lower values). After that, I > did ANOVA (simple Anova). I am wondering whether this is a wrong approach? I > have given an example > > > library(reshape) > B<-structure(list(mean = c(0.0241262, 0.0433538, 0.2204764, 0.7830054 > ), SE = c(0.0209097, 0.0329281, 0.1003248, 0.3019256), site = structure(1:4, > .Label = c("A", > "B", "C", "D"), class = "factor")), .Names = c("mean", "SE", > "site"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -4L)) > attach(B) > B1<-data.frame(B, Upper=mean+1.96*SE, Lower=mean-1.96*SE) > B2<-subset(B1, select=c(-2)) > B2 > B3<-melt(B2, id=c("site")) > B3 > Anova<-aov(B3$value~B3$site) > summary(Anova) > > Thanks > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.