[R] MANOVA polynomial contrasts

John Fox jfox at mcmaster.ca
Mon Jul 30 15:12:58 CEST 2012


Dear Gian Mauro,

On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:44:44 +0200
 "Manzoni, GianMauro" <gm.manzoni at auxologico.it> wrote:
> Dear Prof. John Fox,
> thank you very much for your suggestions.
> However, I still do not know how to use the contrasts after generating them.
> Once I generate the matrix with the polynomial contrasts, what are the
> following steps toward the statistical test?

Here's a contrived example, which uses the Anova() and linearHypothesis() functions in the car package:

----- snip ------

> Y <- matrix(rnorm(300), 100, 3)
> colnames(Y) <- c("y1", "y2", "y3")
> f <- ordered(sample(letters[1:4], 100, replace=TRUE))
> (mod <- lm(Y ~ f))

Call:
lm(formula = Y ~ f)

Coefficients:
             y1        y2        y3      
(Intercept)   0.06514  -0.01683  -0.13787
f.L          -0.37837   0.18309   0.29736
f.Q          -0.02102  -0.39894   0.08455
f.C           0.05898   0.09358  -0.17634

> Anova(mod)

Type II MANOVA Tests: Pillai test statistic
  Df test stat approx F num Df den Df Pr(>F)
f  3   0.11395   1.2634      9    288 0.2566

> linearHypothesis(mod, "f.L")

Sum of squares and products for the hypothesis:
          y1        y2        y3
y1  3.607260 -1.745560 -2.834953
y2 -1.745560  0.844680  1.371839
y3 -2.834953  1.371839  2.227995

Sum of squares and products for error:
          y1        y2        y3
y1 86.343376 -8.054928 -3.711756
y2 -8.054928 95.473020  2.429151
y3 -3.711756  2.429151 89.593163

Multivariate Tests: 
                 Df test stat approx F num Df den Df   Pr(>F)  
Pillai            1 0.0648520 2.172951      3     94 0.096362 .
Wilks             1 0.9351480 2.172951      3     94 0.096362 .
Hotelling-Lawley  1 0.0693495 2.172951      3     94 0.096362 .
Roy               1 0.0693495 2.172951      3     94 0.096362 .
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1 

----- snip ------

You could do similar tests for the quadratic and cubic contrasts.

I hope this helps,
 John

------------------------------------------------
John Fox
Sen. William McMaster Prof. of Social Statistics
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/
	
> 
> A whole example would be very useful.
> 
> Thank you very much in advance!
> 
> Best regards,
> Gian Mauro Manzoni
> 
> 
> 
> 2012/7/25 John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca>
> 
> > Dear Gian,
> >
> > How contrasts are created by default is controlled by the contrasts option:
> >
> > > getOption("contrasts")
> >         unordered           ordered
> > "contr.treatment"      "contr.poly"
> >
> > So, unless you've changed this option, contr.poly() will be used to
> > generate orthogonal polynomial contrasts for an ordered factor, and you
> > therefore need do nothing special to get this result. For example:
> >
> > > (f <- ordered(sample(letters[1:3], 10, replace=TRUE)))
> >  [1] c c a a c c b c a c
> > Levels: a < b < c
> >
> > > round(contrasts(f), 4)
> >           .L      .Q
> > [1,] -0.7071  0.4082
> > [2,]  0.0000 -0.8165
> > [3,]  0.7071  0.4082
> >
> > For more information, see section 11 on statistical models in the manual
> > "An Introduction to R," which is part of the standard R distribution, and
> > in particular sections 11.1 and 11.1.1.
> >
> > I hope that this clarifies the issue.
> >
> > Best,
> >  John
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------
> > John Fox
> > Sen. William McMaster Prof. of Social Statistics
> > Department of Sociology
> > McMaster University
> > Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
> > http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/
> >
> > On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:58:30 +0200
> >  "Manzoni, GianMauro" <gm.manzoni at auxologico.it> wrote:
> > > Dear Greg Snow,
> > > thank you very much for your suggestions. However, I need an example in
> > > order to understand fully.
> > > I was told that, given the ordinal factor, I do not need to specify the
> > > contr.poly function because R does it automatically.
> > > However, I don not know if I have to add an argument into the
> > manova/anova
> > > function or something else.
> > > Please write me an illustrative example.
> > > Many thanks.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Gian Mauro Manzoni
> > >
> > > 2012/7/25 Greg Snow <538280 at gmail.com>
> > >
> > > > You should not need to write them yourself. Look at the contr.poly
> > > > function along with the C function (Note uppercase C) or the contrasts
> > > > function.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Monday, July 23, 2012, Manzoni, GianMauro wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Dear all,
> > > >> I am quite new to R and I am having trouble writing the polynomial
> > > >> contrasts for an ordinal factor in MANOVA.
> > > >> # I have a model such as this
> > > >> fit<-manova(cbind(Y1,Y2,Y3)~Groups,data=Events) # where groups is an
> > > >> ordinal factor with 4 levels
> > > >> # how to set polynomial contrasts for the "Groups" factor ?
> > > >>
> > > >> Thank you very much in advance for any help!
> > > >>
> > > >> Best regards,
> > > >> Mauro
> > > >>
> > > >> --
> > > >> Dr. Gian Mauro Manzoni
> > > >> PhD, PsyD
> > > >> Psychology Research Laboratory
> > > >> San Giuseppe Hospital
> > > >> Istituto Auxologico Italiano
> > > >> Verbania - Italy
> > > >> e-mail: gm.manzoni at auxologico.it
> > > >> cell. phone +39 338 4451207
> > > >> Tel. +39 0323 514278
> > > >>
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> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
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> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dr. Gian Mauro Manzoni
> > > PhD, PsyD
> > > Psychology Research Laboratory
> > > San Giuseppe Hospital
> > > Istituto Auxologico Italiano
> > > Verbania - Italy
> > > e-mail: gm.manzoni at auxologico.it
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Gian Mauro Manzoni
> PhD, PsyD
> Psychology Research Laboratory
> San Giuseppe Hospital
> Istituto Auxologico Italiano
> Verbania - Italy
> e-mail: gm.manzoni at auxologico.it
> cell. phone +39 338 4451207
> Tel. +39 0323 514278



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