[R] Question about Tukey HSD (stat package)

Peter Dalgaard p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Mon Mar 14 16:13:16 CET 2005


Alice Le Bars <alice.le-bars at nantes.inserm.fr> writes:

> Dear all,
> 
> I would be glad if someone could tell me if Tukey HSD (function of
> stats library) accept the NA values and could correct the unbalanced
> design (different number of sample in each group)

I don't think the *theory* of the HSD allows this. There is some more
or less well-founded speculation that if the imbalance is not too bad,
then the HSD results are somewhat useful anyway, but please consider
using the multcomp package, which is specifically designed to get
these things right.

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