[R] unbalanced anova with subsampling (Type III SS)

[John Fox]

Dear Sam,

I don't think that you can use the Anova() function in the car package for
this design because there would be no way to specify the error term.

Sorry,
 John

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John Fox
Senator William McMaster
  Professor of Social Statistics
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox



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> On Behalf Of Sam Chand
> Sent: May-20-11 11:15 PM
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> Subject: [R] unbalanced anova with subsampling (Type III SS)
> 
> Hello R-users,
> I am trying to obtain Type III SS for an ANOVA with subsampling. My 
> design is slightly unbalanced with either 3 or 4 subsamples per 
> replicate.
> 
> The basic aov model would be:
> fit <- aov(y~x+Error(subsample))
> 
> But this gives Type I SS and not Type III.
> 
> But, using the drop() option:
> drop1(fit, test="F")
> 
> I get an error message:
> "Error in UseMethod("extractAIC") : no applicable method for 
> "extractAIC"
> 
> Changing the "contrasts" to "contr.helmert", "contr.poly" also does 
> not help.
> 
> Can I use library(car) for unbalanced subsamples?
> 
> I am very confused.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> -Sam
> 
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