[Rd] Bug Report Fwd: MANOVA Data (PR#13595)

Thomas Lumley tlumley at u.washington.edu
Mon Mar 16 09:59:58 CET 2009


David,

2.3.1 is a bit old to be reporting bugs -- we do ask people to check that their problem is still present in a contemporary version of R. However, your data do still give the same output in R 2.7.2 (which is not current, but was current less than a year ago).

I've tidied up the code to remove all the weird characters:

booth<-read.table(tmp<-textConnection("COUNT REWGRP COMMIT SATIS STAY
1 1 16 19 18
2 1 18 15 17
3 1 18 14 14
4 1 16 20 10
5 1 15 13 17
6 1 12 15 11
7 2 16 20 13
8 2 18 14 16
9 2 13 10 14
10 2 17 13 19
11 2 14 18 15
12 2 19 16 18
13 3 20 18 16
14 3 18 15 19
15 3 13 14 17
16 3 12 16 15
17 3 16 17 18
18 3 14 19 15
"),header=TRUE)

fit<-manova(cbind(COMMIT,SATIS,STAY)~REWGRP,data=booth)


Now, as to the question of whether this is a bug.  You don't give the SAS answers that you are happy with, just the R answers. This makes it a lot more difficult.

It's possible that there is a bug in manova(), but another possibility, since you are concerned about degrees of freedom, and based on the last three letters of the name of your predictor variable, is that you wanted

> fit2<-manova(cbind(COMMIT,SATIS,STAY)~factor(REWGRP),data=booth)
> summary(fit2, test="Pillai")
                Df  Pillai approx F num Df den Df Pr(>F)
factor(REWGRP)  2 0.28342  0.77049      6     28 0.5995
Residuals      15                                      
> summary(fit2, test="Roy")
                Df     Roy approx F num Df den Df Pr(>F)
factor(REWGRP)  2 0.31963  1.49159      3     14 0.2599
Residuals      15                                      
> summary(fit2, test="Hotelling")
                Df Hotelling-Lawley approx F num Df den Df Pr(>F)
factor(REWGRP)  2          0.36261  0.72521      6     24 0.6336
Residuals      15



Googling for the variable names and SAS, MANOVA found some programs in which REWGRP was specified as a CLASS variable, ie, a factor.

Also

http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9781590474174/ch11lev1sec3

has what might be the output of this code.  The test statistics all match the ones in R, but the p-values are slightly different except for Wilks' lambda.

So, it looks as though at least you need to specify that the variable is a factor.  I will have to leave the question of whether the p-values are correct to someone with more knowledge of MANOVA.  It does seem from the documentation that agreement with SAS is intended at least for the Pillai trace and Roy's largest root.

We do appreciate bug reports, but it shouldn't be necessary to do all this work to find out what you think the correct answer is.

       -thomas


On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 dvdbooth at cs.com wrote:

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> Hi.? There appears to be a bug in R function manova.? My friend and I both ran it the same way as shown below (his run) with the shown data set. His results are shown below. we both got the same results.? I was running with R 2.3.1. I'm not sure what version he used.
> Thanks very much,
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> My R results are clearly crap, as shown below.
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> COUNT??? REWGRP??? COMMIT???
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>> attach(booth)
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>> Y <- cbind(COMMIT, SATIS, STAY)
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>> fit <- manova(Y ~ REWGRP)
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>> summary(fit, test="Pillai")
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> ????????? Df? Pillai
> approx F num Df den Df Pr(>F)
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> REWGRP???? 1 0.22731?
> 1.37283????? 3???? 14
> 0.2918
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>> summary(fit, test="Wilks")
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> Wilks approx F num Df den Df Pr(>F)
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> REWGRP???? 1 0.77269?
> 1.37283????? 3???? 14
> 0.2918
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> 16?????????????????????????????????????
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>> summary(fit, test="Hotelling-Lawley")
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> Hotelling-Lawley approx F num Df den Df Pr(>F)
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> 1.37283????? 3???? 14
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>> summary(fit, test="Roy")
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> Df???? Roy approx F num Df den Df Pr(>F)
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> REWGRP???? 1 0.29418?
> 1.37283????? 3???? 14
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>> summary(fit)
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> REWGRP???? 1 0.22731?
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>> summary.aov(fit)
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> REWGRP?????? 1??
> 0.333?? 0.333? 0.0532 0.8204
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> Residuals?? 16 100.167??
> 6.260??????????????
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> ?Response SATIS :
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> Df? Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)
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> REWGRP?????? 1??
> 0.750?? 0.750? 0.0945 0.7625
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> Residuals?? 16 127.028??
> 7.939??????????????
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> ?Response STAY :
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> REWGRP?????? 1 14.083? 14.083?
> 2.3013 0.1488
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> Residuals?? 16 97.917??
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Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
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