[R-sig-ME] Evaluate fixed effects with aovlmer.fnc

[Steven Brady]

Hi All:

I am evaluating the outcome of a reciprocal transplant experiment that
involves two fixed factors (and their interaction) and one random
factor.  Example code is below.

One goal of this analysis is to report an mcmc based p-value (and
estimates, HDP Intervals, etc...) for each of the two fixed factors and
their interaction.  Using aovlmer.fnc() I can generate an anova table to
that effect (with F based p values), but only one mcmc p value is
reported.  I suspect this may have something to do with the Warning
message (see below).

Can anyone suggest how to extract the mcmc p values for each factor
along with HDP intervals?

Also: When I attempt to evaluate the significance of the fixed factors
using pvals.fnc() instead of aovlmer.fnc(), I noticed that the p values
depend on the name (alphabetical?) of the level within the factor.  Can
anyone clarify this distinction in outputs?  Said another way, what do
the different p values refer to in the output of

pvals.fnc(g)

versus

aovlmer.fnc(g, mcmc$mcmc, c("originw", "envw",
+ "originw:envw"))

Many thanks for any input.

Best,

Steve


#Example
population=c("a","a","a","a","b","b","b",
"b","c","c","c","c","d","d","d","d")
env=c("r","r","w","w","r","r","w","w",
"r","r","w","w","r","r","w","w")
origin=c("r","r","r","r","r","r","r",
"r","w","w","w","w","w","w","w","w")
survival=c(rnorm(16,0.75, sd = 0.1))
exp=data.frame(population=population, env=env,
origin=origin,survival=survival)

g<-lmer(survival~origin*env +
(1|population), data = exp)

mcmc = pvals.fnc(g, nsim=10000, withMCMC=TRUE)
aovlmer.fnc(g, mcmc$mcmc, c("originw", "envw",
"originw:envw"))

$MCMC
$MCMC$p
[1] 0.0802

$MCMC$which
[1] "originw"      "envw"         "originw:envw"


$Ftests
Analysis of Variance Table
           Df   Sum Sq  Mean Sq F value      F Df2       p
origin      1 0.000570 0.000570  0.1267 0.1267  12 0.72808
env         1 0.036297 0.036297  8.0659 8.0659  12 0.01490
origin:env  1 0.004855 0.004855  1.0789 1.0789  12 0.31942

Warning message:
In if (class(anov) != "try-error") { :
  the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used

__________________________________________
Steven P. Brady, Ph.D. Candidate
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Yale University
370 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511

Email: steven.brady at yale.edu
Phone: 203-432-5321 Fax: 203-432-3929
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