Sounds like a repeated measures design, if so then you have to incorporate this into your model before interpreting the results.
Brooke LaFlamme-2 wrote: > > Hi, I am trying to do a repeated measures ANOVA to determine if there is a > significant difference between two sets of timecourse data. Each > individual > was given a single treatment and then measured for one variable for 10 > days. > Here is made-up example of what my data would look like: > > data<-data.frame(subject=rep(c("A1","A2","A3","B1","B2","B3"),10),treatment=rep(c("A","B"),each=3), > day=rep(c(1:10),each=6),response=rnorm(60)) > > This is the code I run to test for a difference between treatments A and B > over the course of the 10 days: > > aov(response~day*treatment+Error(subject), data=data) > > I believe this is the correct model to use, though I could definitely be > wrong. > > Here is the output I get from my actual data (using summary(aov)): > > Error: subject > Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F) > treatment 1 4258.1 4258.1 12.588 0.001344 ** > Residuals 29 9810.2 338.3 > --- > Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 > > Error: Within > Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F) > day 9 98345 10927 150.313 < 2.2e-16 *** > day:treatment 9 6844 760 10.461 8.374e-14 *** > Residuals 261 18974 73 > --- > Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 > > > The p-value for "treatment" is the same as what I would get if I lumped > the > data from all 10 days together, so I assume this is not what I want here. > However, am I correct in interpreting the p-value for day:treatment as > what > I want? Does this tell me that there is a difference between the two > groups > over the course of the 10 days (regardless of which days actually are > different) with respect to the fact that I am measuring the same subjects > each day? > > Thanks for any help! > -- > Brooke LaFlamme > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/interpreting-mixed-model-anova-results-tp18298521p18299363.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.