In addtition to the example I mentioned previously, demo("MMC.WoodEnergy-aov", "HH")
Please also see demo("MMC.WoodEnergy", "HH") In this example, since anova(energy.aov.4), shows that the Wood factor and Stove:Wood interaction are significant, all possible pairwise comparisons of the 12 Stove:Wood terms are not interpretable. Only comparisons of Stoves within each of the Woods is interpretable. These estimates are shown with both tables and graphs. Since the covariate is also significant, it is necessary to pick a reference value for the comparisons. Here is a simplification of the WoodEnergy example to ignore the covariate. The 66 pairwise comparisons that TukeyHSD provides for the interaction effect are not interpretable. The significant interaction and one significant main effect together are an indicator that main effects and interactions are not interpretable. Only simple effects of one factor within a constant level of the other factor are interpretable. > energy.aov.4b <- aov(Energy ~ Stove*Wood + Stove:Wood, + data=energy) > anova(energy.aov.4b) Analysis of Variance Table Response: Energy Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F) Stove 2 0.007 0.003 0.0078 0.9923 Wood 3 274.768 91.589 209.0130 < 2.2e-16 *** Stove:Wood 6 34.570 5.762 13.1483 3.781e-10 *** Residuals 76 33.303 0.438 --- Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 > energy.aov.4b.HSD <- TukeyHSD(energy.aov.4b) > sapply(energy.aov.4b.HSD, dim) Stove Wood Stove:Wood [1,] 3 6 66 [2,] 4 4 4 > About a year after I wrote this example, Torsten extended glht to permit an option of averaging over other factors and covariates. I need to revise the WoodEnergy example to use that option. Rich [[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.