[R] lme and lmer syntax

Ronaldo Reis-Jr. chrysopa at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 18:21:20 CEST 2005


Em Seg 24 Out 2005 18:08, Doran, Harold escreveu:
> Ronaldo
>
> See the article on lmer pasted below for syntax. It is the only current
> source documenting the code. In lmer(), the nesting structure for the
> ranmdom effects is handled in a slightly different way. If your
> observations are nested as you note, then you can use
>
> > lmer(y~x1 + x2 +(1|x1) + (1|x2), data)
>
> @Article{Rnews:Bates:2005,
>   author       = {Douglas Bates},
>   title	       = {Fitting Linear Mixed Models in {R}},
>   journal      = {R News},
>   year	       = 2005,
>   volume       = 5,
>   number       = 1,
>   pages	       = {27--30},
>   month	       = {May},
>   url	       = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/doc/Rnews/},
> }
>

Hi,

I try this with a splitsplitplot example.

I make the correct model with aov, lme do compare with lmer.

But I cant make a correct model in lmer. Look that the aov and lme results are 
similars, but very different from lmer. In aov and lme is used the correct DF 
for each variable, in lmer it use a same DF for all? Denom=54.

What is my mistake?

Thanks
Ronaldo

----- Begin of example ------

> summary(splitplot)
     yield        block      irrigation   density   fertilizer
 Min.   : 60.00   A:18   control  :36   high  :24   N :24     
 1st Qu.: 86.00   B:18   irrigated:36   low   :24   NP:24     
 Median : 95.00   C:18                  medium:24   P :24     
 Mean   : 99.72   D:18                                        
 3rd Qu.:114.00                                               
 Max.   :136.00                                               
> 
> attach(splitplot)
> 
> m.aov <- 
aov(yield~irrigation*density*fertilizer+Error(block/irrigation/density/fertilizer))
> 
> summary(m.aov)

Error: block
          Df  Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)
Residuals  3 194.444  64.815               

Error: block:irrigation
           Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value  Pr(>F)  
irrigation  1 8277.6  8277.6  17.590 0.02473 *
Residuals   3 1411.8   470.6                  
---
Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 

Error: block:irrigation:density
                   Df  Sum Sq Mean Sq F value  Pr(>F)  
density             2 1758.36  879.18  3.7842 0.05318 .
irrigation:density  2 2747.03 1373.51  5.9119 0.01633 *
Residuals          12 2787.94  232.33                  
---
Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 

Error: block:irrigation:density:fertilizer
                              Df  Sum Sq Mean Sq F value    Pr(>F)    
fertilizer                     2 1977.44  988.72 11.4493 0.0001418 ***
irrigation:fertilizer          2  953.44  476.72  5.5204 0.0081078 ** 
density:fertilizer             4  304.89   76.22  0.8826 0.4840526    
irrigation:density:fertilizer  4  234.72   58.68  0.6795 0.6106672    
Residuals                     36 3108.83   86.36                      
---
Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 
> 
> library(nlme)
> 
> m.lme <- lme(yield~irrigation*density*fertilizer,random=~1|
block/irrigation/density/fertilizer)
> 
> anova(m.lme)
                              numDF denDF   F-value p-value
(Intercept)                       1    36 2683.2245  <.0001
irrigation                        1     3   31.0269  0.0114
density                           2    12    3.7780  0.0534
fertilizer                        2    36   11.4490  0.0001
irrigation:density                2    12    5.9023  0.0164
irrigation:fertilizer             2    36    5.5203  0.0081
density:fertilizer                4    36    0.8826  0.4841
irrigation:density:fertilizer     4    36    0.6795  0.6107
> 
> library(lme4)
Loading required package: Matrix
Loading required package: lattice
> 
> g1 <- block:irrigation
> g2 <- block:irrigation:density
> g3 <- block:irrigation:density:fertilizer
> 
> m.lmer <- lmer(yield~irrigation*density*fertilizer+(1|g1)+(1|g2)+(1|g3))
> 
> anova(m.lmer)
Analysis of Variance Table
                              Df Sum Sq Mean Sq  Denom F value    Pr(>F)    
irrigation                     1 827.41  827.41  54.00 30.9203 8.546e-07 ***
density                        2 202.53  101.26  54.00  3.7842  0.028971 *  
fertilizer                     2 612.76  306.38  54.00 11.4493 7.159e-05 ***
irrigation:density             2 316.40  158.20  54.00  5.9120  0.004767 ** 
irrigation:fertilizer          2 295.45  147.72  54.00  5.5204  0.006586 ** 
density:fertilizer             4  94.48   23.62  54.00  0.8826  0.480561    
irrigation:density:fertilizer  4  72.73   18.18  54.00  0.6795  0.609157    
---
Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 

----- End of example ------

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