Hi Peter, Thank you so much for your tips. Have a nice Easter. Gian Il giovedì 2 aprile 2015, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> > > On 30 Mar 2015, at 17:11 , Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci < > gian.benu...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > Dear R-usrs, > > > > I am trying to perform a MANOVA on a data frame with 31 columns about > soil > > parameters and 1 column containing the explanatory variable (Fraction) > that > > have three levels. > > my code is the following: > > > > datam <- read.table("data_manova2.csv", header=T, sep=",") > > names(datam) > > > > manova_fraction2 <- manova(cbind(pH, AWC, WEOC, WEN, C.mic, CO2.C, Ca, > Mg, > > K, Na, sol.exch.Fe, easily.reducible.Fe, amourphou.Fe.oxide...Fe.OM, > > crystalline.Fe.oxides, TN, TOC, NH4.N, NO3.N, N.org, organic.P, > avaiable.P, > > Total.PLFA, Tot.Bat, Gram., Gram..1, Funghi, AMF, protozoa, actinomiceti, > > non.specifici) ~ as.factor(Fraction), data= datam) > > > > summary(manova_fraction2) > > > > when I did the summary I got this error > > > >> summary(manova_fraction2) > > Error in summary.manova(manova_fraction2) : residuals have rank 18 < 30 > > > > Is this error possibly due to high correlation between my variables? > > > > Nope. Too few observations. For classical MANOVA, you need > p degrees of > freedom to determine the covariance matrix with full rank. As far as I can > tell, you have only 21 observations (21-3=18 degrees of freedom) for your > p=30 response variables. > > > Many thanks in advance, > > -- > Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > Phone: (+45)38153501 > Email: pd....@cbs.dk <javascript:;> Priv: pda...@gmail.com <javascript:;> > > > > > > > > > -- Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci, PhD University of Perugia Dept. of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences Borgo XX Giugno, 74 06121 - Perugia, ITALY Tel: +390755856417 Email: gian.benu...@gmail.com *----- Do not print this email unless you really need to. Save paper and protect the environment! -----* [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.