[R] Incomplete Factorial design
Spencer Graves
spencer.graves at pdf.com
Fri Feb 6 15:38:34 CET 2004
I assume that means you have two treatments, say A and B, can be
either absent or present. The standard analysis codes them as -1 or +1
for absent or present, respectively. If you have observations in all 4
cells, you can write the following equation:
y(A,B) = b0 + b1*A + b2*B + b12*A*B + error.
This equation has 4 unknowns, b1, b1, b2 and b12. If you have all
4 cells in the 2x2 table, then you can estimate all 4 unknowns. If you
have data for only 3 cells, the standard analysis pretends that b12 = 0
and estimates the other three. If you have only 2 cells, say (both
absent) and (both present), the standard analysis can estimate b0 plus
either of b1 or b2. However, in fact, these really estimate (b0+b12)
and (b1+b2). To understand this, consult any good book that discusses
confounding with 2-level fractional factorial designs.
To do this in R, use "lm", as
fit <- lm(y~A+B, data.frame(y=..., A=..., B=..,)
hope this helps.
spencer graves
parrinel at med.unibs.it wrote:
>Hello,
>I am planning a study with the main point to evaluate the interaction of two treatments,
>but for ethical reasons one cell is empty, that with patients receaving no treatment at all
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> Treatment B
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>+
>-
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>Treatment A
>+
>a
>b
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>-
>c
>-------
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>I am looking for functions in R to estimate the sample size and/or to conduct the
>analysis. I have just found an article from Byar in Statistics in Medicine for a 2^3
>incomplete factorial design, but I would like not to discover again the wheel..
>TIA
>dr. Giovanni Parrinello
>Section of Medical Statistics
>Department of Biosciences
>University of Brescia
>25127 Viale Europa, 11
>Brescia Italy
>Tel: +390303717528
>Fax: +390303701157
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