[R] Major difference in multivariate analyses SPSS and R

[Peter Dalgaard]

Draga, R. wrote:
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> Would somebody know how it is possible that in SPSS we get p<0.001 and
> in R we get p=0.24?
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> And, in 'R' the 95% CI of the Odds Ratio is 6.2-14.1. Why is the
> p-value=0.24?
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You asked this before and you are still not providing sufficient 
information.

Harold already pointed out that excluding an important variance 
component in SPSS could easily explain a difference in p values. 
However, the discrepancy between CI and p value suggests that you could 
be misreading the output from lmer(), and/or misspecifying the model. 
Now,  you are simply not telling us

  - what you did
  - what the data are like (esp. which variables vary within and between 
levels)
  - what the output was
  - which version of lmer() was used

Also you are confusing us with "variable 1", "variable 2", "variable A", 
and "Var B"

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