[R] F values from a Repeated Measures aov

[John Vokey]

Two things:
1. the + Sex term is superfluous
2. the variable Subject needs to be a Factor, not a vector (as I  
suspect it currently is).  That is, add:
  mydata.tab$Subject=as.factor(mydata.tab$Subject)

in the preamble before the aov call, and all should be fine.


On 29-Apr-08, at 4:00 AM, r-help-request at r-project.org wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> I have repeated measures for data on association time (under 2
> acoustic condtions) in male and female frogs as they grow to adulthood
> (6 timepoints). Thus, two within-subject variables (Acoustic
> Condition: 2 levels, Timepoint: 6 levels) and one between-subject
> variable (Sex:male or female).
>
> I am pretty sure my distributions depart from normality but I would
> first like to simply run a RM anova on the data. My problem is that
> when I do this I generate different values of F for my main effects
> and interaction when I do the analysis in [R] and SPSS - so I don't
> know which one to believe.
>
> Here is my code in R:
>
>
>> mydata.tab=read.delim("mydata.txt", header=T)   #read in my data
>
>> mydata.tab$Timepoint=as.factor(mydata.tab$Timepoint)    #col headings
> are factors so df are correct
>
>> mydata.tab$Acx.Cond=as.factor(mydata.tab$Acx.Cond)
>
>> mydata.tab$Sex=as.factor(mydata.tab$Sex)
>
>> aov.F=aov(Targ.Assoc.Time~(Timepoint*Acx.Cond*Sex) + Error(Subject/ 
>> (Timepoint*Acx.Cond))+(Sex), data=mydata.tab)
>
> #run aov where i look at the main effects of Timepoint, Acoustic
> Condition and Sex as well as all the interactions therein on the
> amount of time a frog spends associating with the target sound.
> Include anything to do with Subject in the error term.
>
>
>
>
> Does this look right for a Repeated Measures ANOVA, or am I missing
> something to make it RM and that explains the large discrepancies in
> my F-values between [R] and SPSS?
>
>
> As soon as I get this canonical aov code figured out I want to derive
> my p-values by bootstrapping my F distributions, but first I need
> those canonical F's.
>
>
> Thanks
> -Alex
>
> -- 
> Alexander T Baugh
> Section of Integrative Biology
> Univ. of Texas at Austin C0930
> Austin, TX 78712
> http://darktropic.blogspot.com/



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