[R] lme to determine if there is a group effect

[John Sorkin]

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I am trying to run a repeated measures analysis of data in which each subject (identified by SS) has 3 observations at three different times (0, 3, and 6). There are two groups of subjects (identified by group). I want to know if the response differs in the two groups. I have tried to used lme. Lme tell me if there is a time effect, but does not tell me if there is a group effect. Once I get this to work I will want to know if there is a significant group*time effect. Can someone tell me how to get an estimate for group. Once I get that, I believe getting an estimate for group*time should be straight forward. The code I have tired to use follows.
Thank you,
John
 
> # This is my data
> data1
   SS group time     value baseline
1   1  Cont    0  9.000000 9.000000
2   2  Cont    0  3.000000 3.000000
3   3  Cont    0  8.000000 8.000000
4   4  Inte    0  5.690702 5.690702
5   5  Inte    0  7.409493 7.409493
6   6  Inte    0  7.428018 7.428018
7   1  Cont    3 13.713148 9.000000
8   2  Cont    3  9.841107 3.000000
9   3  Cont    3 12.843236 8.000000
10  4  Inte    3  9.300899 5.690702
11  5  Inte    3 10.936389 7.409493
12  6  Inte    3 12.358499 7.428018
13  1  Cont    6 18.952390 9.000000
14  2  Cont    6 15.091527 3.000000
15  3  Cont    6 17.578812 8.000000
16  4  Inte    6 12.325499 5.690702
17  5  Inte    6 15.486513 7.409493
18  6  Inte    6 18.284965 7.428018
> # Create a grouped data object. SS identifies each subject
> # group indentifies group, intervention or control.
> GD<- groupedData(value~time|SS/group,data=data1,FUN=mean)
> # Fit the model.
> fit1 <- lme(GD)
> cat("The results give information about time, but does not say if the gruops are different\n")
The results give information about time, but does not say if the gruops are different
> summary(fit1)
Linear mixed-effects model fit by REML
 Data: GD 
       AIC      BIC    logLik
  74.59447 81.54777 -28.29724

Random effects:
 Formula: ~time | SS
 Structure: General positive-definite
            StdDev    Corr  
(Intercept) 1.3875111 (Intr)
time        0.2208046 -0.243

 Formula: ~time | group %in% SS
 Structure: General positive-definite
            StdDev    Corr  
(Intercept) 1.3875115 (Intr)
time        0.2208051 -0.243
Residual    0.3800788       

Fixed effects: value ~ time 
               Value Std.Error DF   t-value p-value
(Intercept) 6.747442 0.8135067 11  8.294268       0
time        1.588653 0.1326242 11 11.978601       0
 Correlation: 
     (Intr)
time -0.268

Standardized Within-Group Residuals:
        Min          Q1         Med          Q3         Max 
-1.11412947 -0.44986535  0.08034174  0.34615610  1.29943887 

Number of Observations: 18
Number of Groups: 
           SS group %in% SS 
            6             6 



> 
John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics
University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
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