[R] set type of SS in anova()

[John Fox]

Dear j.c.l.omms,

The Anova() function in the car package can compute so-called "type-II" and
"type-III" tests. When there are terms in the model that are marginal to
others (such as main effects marginal to interactions), type-III tests are
of questionable interest and have to be formulated carefully to test
sensible hypotheses. As well, since glm() with no family argument fits a
linear model with normal errors, it would be more usual in R to use lm().

Regards,
 John

------------------------------
John Fox, Professor
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox

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> When you use the 'general linear model' analysis in SPSS, the first result
is
> a table with all terms with F-tests and significance values for all IV's.
It
> uses  http://joyx.joensuu.fi/~ek/anova/sstypes.txt SS Type III , which has
> the advantage that the order in which the variables are added to the model
> does not matter, and therefore it is relatively objective.
> 
> I would like to reproduce this output in R. However, when using
> anova(glm.object, test="F"), the F test shows "Terms added sequentially
> (first to last)". Because of this, the F values and p values of the terms
> depend on the sequence in which they were added. Eg: an anova() of
> glm(a~b+c) will give other results than glm(a~c+b).
> 
> How can I specify the SS type of an anova in R, so that i can reproduce
the
> exact results as that i got in SPSS?
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