Le mercredi 03 février 2010 à 09:23 -0600, Peng Yu a écrit : > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:12 AM, Emmanuel Charpentier > <charp...@bacbuc.dyndns.org> wrote: > > Le mercredi 03 février 2010 à 00:01 -0500, David Winsemius a écrit : > >> On Feb 2, 2010, at 11:38 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > >> > >> > ?contrast in the contrast package gives me the following description. > >> > However, I have no idea what Type II and III contrasts are. Could > >> > somebody explain it to me? And what does 'type' mean here? > >> > > >> > *‘type’*: set ‘type="average"’ to average the individual contrasts > >> > (e.g., to obtain a Type II or III contrast) > >> > >> In no particular order: > >> http://courses.washington.edu/b570/handouts/type3ss.pdf > >> http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/wuenschk/SAS/SS1234.doc > >> http://n4.nabble.com/a-kinder-view-of-Type-III-SS-td847282.html > >> > >> Don't expect any follow-up questions to be answered or further > >> citations offered. This is really more in the realm of statistics > >> education than an R specific question. > > > > Nonwhistanding David Winsemius' closing remark, I'd like to add > > something that should be requested reading (and maybe hinted at in > > lm()'s help page) : > > > > http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/MASS3/Exegeses.pdf > > > > (BTW, despite is age, MASS *is* requested reading, and Bill Venables' > > exegeses should be part of it). > > Do you by any means indicate that MASS describes Type I, II, III, IV > contrast? Although MASS describes contrasts, but I don't think it > describes Type I, II, III, IV contrast.
it does not. But it explains (tersely) *WHY* one has *serious* logical difficulties when tryng to interpret contrasts not abiding to marginality principle. HTH, Emmanuel Charpentier ______________________________________________ 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.