[R] significance of character (Anova)

Jessica Streicher j.streicher at micromata.de
Mon Aug 13 17:04:44 CEST 2012


Also, since there apparently were warnings, how about adding them?

On 13.08.2012, at 16:34, peter dalgaard wrote:

> 
> On Aug 13, 2012, at 15:38 , Jennifer Kaiser wrote:
> 
>>> Model: poisson, link: log
>>> 
>>> Response: sb_ek_ber
>>> 
>>> Terms added sequentially (first to last)
>>> 
>>> 
>>>         Df  Deviance Resid. Df Resid. Dev  Pr(>Chi)    
>>> NULL                    1237837 4.4998e+10              
>>> ABWHALT_C  2 244353722  1237835 4.4754e+10 < 2.2e-16 ***
>>> Wuerfel    5  63772679  1237830 4.4690e+10 < 2.2e-16 ***
>>> 
>>> Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1 
>>> There were 50 or more warnings (use warnings() to see the first 50)
>>> 
>>> The thing is that the caracter "Wuerfel" is random generated  
>>> and it shouldn' t  be significant.
>>> 
>>> It would be realy great if you could help me. 
>> 
>> 
>>> The most obvious guess is that sb_ek_ber probably is not Poisson distributed. 
>> 
>> I tried it in another statistical  programm and I got the values that I expected but for my bachelortheses I need to do it in R.
>> 
> 
> And what do you expect us to do with that bit of information?
> 
> Did you check the distribution of the response variable? For all we know, it might have values of 99999 indicating missing values to "another statistical program".
> 
> 
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