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[John Sorkin]

I am trying to run a repeated measures analysis of data in which each subject (identified by SS) has 3 observations at three different times (0, 3, and 6). There are two groups of subjects (identified by group). I want to know if the response differs in the two groups. I have tried to used lme. Lme tell me if there is a time effect, but does not tell me if there is a group effect. Once I get this to work I will want to know if there is a significant group*time effect. Can someone tell me how to get an estimate for group. Once I get that, I believe getting an estimate for group*time should be straight forward. The code I have tired to use follows.
Thank you,
John
 
> data1
   SS group time     value  baseline
1   1  Cont    0  6.000000  6.000000
2   2  Cont    0  3.000000  3.000000
3   3  Cont    0  5.000000  5.000000
4   4  Inte    0 14.132312 14.132312
5   5  Inte    0  8.868808  8.868808
6   6  Inte    0 14.602672 14.602672
7   1  Cont    3 10.706805  6.000000
8   2  Cont    3  8.469477  3.000000
9   3  Cont    3  9.337411  5.000000
10  4  Inte    3 16.941940 14.132312
11  5  Inte    3 13.872662  8.868808
12  6  Inte    3 20.465614 14.602672
13  1  Cont    6 16.687028  6.000000
14  2  Cont    6 13.177752  3.000000
15  3  Cont    6 14.276398  5.000000
16  4  Inte    6 23.453808 14.132312
17  5  Inte    6 18.229053  8.868808
18  6  Inte    6 25.334664 14.602672
> # Create a grouped data object. SS identifies each subject
> # group indentifies group, intervention or control.
> GD<- groupedData(value~time|SS/group,data=data1,FUN=mean)
> # Fit the model.
> fit1 <- lme(GD)
> cat("The results give information about time, but does not say if the gruops are different\n")
The results give information about time, but does not say if the gruops are different
> summary(fit1)
Linear mixed-effects model fit by REML
 Data: GD 
       AIC      BIC    logLik
  81.38094 88.33424 -31.69047

Random effects:
 Formula: ~time | SS
 Structure: General positive-definite
            StdDev      Corr  
(Intercept) 3.371776404 (Intr)
time        0.009246535 1     

 Formula: ~time | group %in% SS
 Structure: General positive-definite
            StdDev     Corr  
(Intercept) 3.34070367 (Intr)
time        0.00915754 1     
Residual    0.61279061       

Fixed effects: value ~ time 
               Value Std.Error DF   t-value p-value
(Intercept) 8.512446 1.9511580 11  4.362766  0.0011
time        1.654303 0.0592047 11 27.942107  0.0000
 Correlation: 
     (Intr)
time -0.001

Standardized Within-Group Residuals:
       Min         Q1        Med         Q3        Max 
-1.9691671 -0.4876710  0.1559464  0.4637269  1.6069444 

Number of Observations: 18
Number of Groups: 
           SS group %in% SS 
            6             6 

 
John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
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