Hi JP, I suggest that you read the literature cited in the help file, most particularly
Pinheiro, J.C., and Bates, D.M. (2000) "Mixed-Effects Models in S and S-PLUS", Springer. MASS (Modern Applied Statistics in S) also has some useful things in it. Cheers Andrew On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 03:23:58AM -0700, Jean-Pierre Bresciani wrote: > > Hi, > > what is the appropriate syntax to get the random error correct when > performing repeated measures anova with 'lme'. > > let's say i have 3 independent variables, with 'aov', i would write > something like: aov(dep_var~(indep_var1*indep_var2*indep_var3) + > Error(subject/(indep_var1*indep_var2*indep_var3)). > > With 'lme' however, i can't find the right formula. i tried things like: > lme(dep_var~(indep_var1*indep_var2*indep_var3), random = ~1|subject) or > nesting my independent variables in 'subject', but those are obviously wrong > with my design. > > i'm quite clueless (and i haven't found any convincing piece of information > about how to correctly use 'lme' or 'lmer'). So, any advice along that line > is more than welcome. > > JP > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/random-error-with-lme-for-repeated-measures-anova-tp19178239p19178239.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. -- Andrew Robinson Department of Mathematics and Statistics Tel: +61-3-8344-6410 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~andrewpr http://blogs.mbs.edu/fishing-in-the-bay/ ______________________________________________ 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.