[R] A concrete type I/III Sum of square problem

[Gregor Gorjanc]

> WPhantom <wp1 at tiscali.fr> writes:
> 
>>> Thanks Brian for the reference.
>>>   I just discover that it is available in our 
>>> library so I going to take it & read it soon.
>>> Actually, I don't even know the difference 
>>> between a multistratum vs a single-stratum AOV. A 
>>> quick search on google returned me the R materials so that I imagine
>>> that these concepts are quite specific to R.
> 
> You have to be careful not to confuse Google's view of the world with
> Reality...
> 
> The concept of error strata is much older than R, and existed for
> instance in Genstat, anno 1977 or so. However, Genstat seems to have
> left little impression on the Internet. 
>  
>>> I will read the book first before asking for more informations.
> 
> The executive summary is that the concept of error strata relies
> substantially on having a balanced design (at least for the random
> effects), so that the analysis can be decomposed into analyses of
> means, contrasts, and contrasts of means. For unbalanced designs, you
> usually get meaningless analyses.
> 

Can you (prof. Dalgaard) please point us to relevant book with these
topics. I am very interested in it since my data are often unbalanced.

>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> Sylvain Cl?ment
>>> 
>>> At 12:38 14/02/2006, you wrote:
>>
>>>> >More to the point, you are confusing 
>>>> >multistratum AOV with single-stratuam AOV.  For 
>>>> >a good tutorial, see MASS4 (bibliographic 
>>>> >information in the R FAQ).  For unbalanced data 
>>>> >we suggest you use lme() instead.

I do not have the whole book in my head as prof. Ripley probably does,
but I can not recall to read about this in MASS4. I am sure I am wrong
and would you (prof. Ripley) be please so kind and point us to relevant
chapters/pages.

Many thanks.

-- 
Lep pozdrav / With regards,
    Gregor Gorjanc

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