



Hello all,
 
I am a 2 month newbie to R and am stumped.  I have a data set that I've run multivariate stats on using the manova function (I included the data set).  Now it comes time for a table of effect sizes with significance.  The univariate tests are easy.  Where I run into trouble filling in the table of effect sizes is the Mahalanobis D as an effect size.  I've included the table so you can see what group's I'm comparing.  I know there's a great function for filling in ?1 and ?2 : mahalanobis(x, center, cov, inverted=FALSE, ...)

The problem is I lack the knowledge around cluster analysis of what goes into the function for [x, center, & cov.]  I have only a basic understanding of this topic (a picture of a measured distance between two clusters on a graph).  Could someone please use my data set or a similar one (a multivariate with at least 3 outcome variables) and actually run this function (mahalanobis).  Then please send me your output from [R] starting from the data set all the way to the statistic.  PS I know the Mahalanobis D should be ?1=3.93 & ?2=3.04.
 
The Y,M,O in the data set stands for young, middle, old.
 
I am running the latest version of R on a windows 7 machine.  
 





Effect Sizes



Contrasts

Dependent Variables

 

 


Friends

Parents

Strangers

All


Young-Middle

-1.8768797*

-3.2842941*

-1.1094004*

?1


Middle-Old

1.34900725*

1.54919532*

-2.0107882*

?2
 
  Gender Age Friend.Agression Parent.Agression Stranger.Agression
1       f   y                8                7                  8
2       f   y                5                6                  8
3       f   y                6                3                  7
4       f   y                5                5                  7
5       f   m               15               13                 10
6       f   m               13               11                  9
7       f   m               12               12                  9
8       f   m               18               10                  7
9       f   o               11               11                 10
10      f   o               10                4                 12
11      f   o               12                9                 12
12      f   o                9                8                 14
13      m   y               13                7                  7
14      m   y                9                5                 10
15      m   y               11                4                  4
16      m   y               15                3                  4
17      m   m               14               12                  8
18      m   m               10               15                 11
19      m   m               12               11                  8
20      m   m               10                9                  9
21      m   o               10                8                 11
22      m   o               13               11                 13
23      m   o                9                8                 12
24      m   o                7                9                 16
 		 	   		  
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