[R] MANOVA extension of paired t-test?

Peter Dalgaard BSA p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Thu Jan 24 17:39:24 CET 2002


Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Stewart Schultz wrote:
> 
> > What is the original manova() statement in such a case?  In other words,
> > one has several variables, and the desire is to test whether the mean of
> > each is zero (the "treatment" has been subsumed by the definition of the
> > variable, which is a before-after difference).  manova(Y~rep(0,nrow(Y))) is
> > the intuitive choice, but doesn't work.
> 
> manova(Y ~ 1) specifies an overall mean, if that is what you want.

There appears to be several ways not to do that...

This works:

> Y <- cbind(rnorm(10),rnorm(10))
> summary(manova(Y~1),intercept=T) 
            Df Pillai approx F num Df den Df Pr(>F)
(Intercept)  1 0.2090   1.0569      2      8 0.3915
Residuals    9                                     


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