[R-sig-ME] 答复: A question on using LME model in species nested within a random block design

[famingw at gmail.com]

Thanks Phillip,
  I uploaded the data and r code to drop box.
 See: 
Rcode: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fpqdbm6go0g8ak0/Faming%20NP%20model.R?dl=0

Data: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9dr09vlevmnood1/Nconcdata.csv?dl=0

Thanks.

Faming Wang

发件人: Phillip Alday
发送时间: Monday, May 8, 2017 9:15 PM
收件人: Faming Wang
抄送: r-sig-mixed-models at r-project.org
主题: Re: [R-sig-ME] A question on using LME model in species nested withina random block design

Dear Faming,

I don't have anything to comment on your actual question, but the attachments are stripped before messages are forwarded to the list. In other words: good job on sharing data and code so that we can help, but you need to post it online somewhere (dropbox, pastebin and github gists are popular options) so that we see it!

Best,
Phillip 
 
> On 9 May 2017, at 09:09, Faming Wang <famingw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> 
> I have conducted an N and P field addition experiment in a tropical
> forest, and we used a random block design in this experiment, briefly, we
> had four randomly distributed plots in each block (Control, +N， +P,
> and +NP), and five blocks located in the forest. Totally we have 20 plots,
> with two N treatments and two P treatment and five replicated blocks. In
> each plot, we selected five  species  plants (some plots only contains 3 or
> 4 species) to measure their leave variables, like N concentration, P
> concentration, and photosynthesis rate et al.  We want to know the effect
> of N and P addition as well as the species level changes (inter-species )
> on leaf variables. Since some plots some specific species are missing in
> some plots some specific species, it was unbalanced at the species level.
> We used linear mixed effect models to conduct our statistical analysis:
> 
>  We firstly tested the random effect with blocks, and species within plots
> within blocks, and found that nesting plots and species within block did
> not improve the model fitness, so we choose only block as random effect.
> For fixed effects, N-addition, P-addition, species and their interaction
> were considered fixed effects in models. The significance of each term was
> determined by comparing nested models using likelihood ratio tests and AICs
> to check for model improvement. Since there was better model fit (lower AIC
> values) with interaction terms, we selected the full factor model. However,
> as there was a highly significant effect of tree species identity and
> species related interactions, species-specific responses to N- and
> P-addition were also investigated with separate models with N, P and their
> interaction as fixed effects and block as a random effect.
> however, our reviewers were not happy with this statistical methods and
> pointed out that "Species is treated as a fixed factor, generating a
> three-way factorial ANOVA. Species cannot be treated in this way because
> all five species were present in each 10-by-10-m plot. To implement a
> three-way ANOVA design, the entire experiment (five blocks of the four
> factorial N and P treatments) would have to be repeated once for each
> species. Species cannot be treated as a fixed factor because all five
> species were measured in the same experimental plots. This is a split-plot
> design. Alternatively, MANOVA might be performed treating the five species
> as five response variables. A split-plot design or a MANOVA approach would
> allow the authors to investigate interspecific variation in responses."
> 
>  I am very confused on the reviewer's comments,  it seems to me that the
> reviewer compared our LME model with 3-way ANOVA. If we used 3-way ANOVA, I
> know that my experiment is species nested in a random block design, and we
> could not directly use 3-Way ANOVA, which the error df would be
> overestimated.
> 
>   Below I attached my sample data and my current R script for LME model.
> Could anybody take a look at our data?   I really appreciate if you can
> provide us some suggestions how to conduct the correct statistical analysis
> for this study.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Sincerely
> 
> Faming Wang
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