Re: [R] question about the anova() function for deviance analysis

2017-04-17 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 16/04/2017 9:46 AM, Sophie Dubois wrote: Dear Maintener, I have recently had a bad experience with the anova() function. Indeed, I wanted to process a deviance analysis between 2 mixed linear models and I was really surprise to see that depending on the ordre in which I gave my models, the

Re: [R] question about the anova() function for deviance analysis

2017-04-16 Thread Jeff Newmiller
You are sending your email to a whole mailing list of volunteers, not a specific "maintainer" (and I am not one). However, your assertions convey unfamiliarity with statistics rather than deficiencies in R, and this mailing list is not a stats tutoring list. I did a quick Google search and

Re: [R] question about the anova() function for deviance analysis

2017-04-16 Thread Bert Gunter
This list is about R programming; your question seems mostly about statistics, and is therefore off topic here. I suggest you consult a local statistical expert who *is* comfortable with such statistical analyses. In general, partitions of sums of squares in statistical models can depend on the

[R] question about the anova() function for deviance analysis

2017-04-16 Thread Sophie Dubois
Dear Maintener, > I have recently had a bad experience with the anova() function. > Indeed, I wanted to process a deviance analysis between 2 mixed linear > models and I was really surprise to see that depending on the ordre in > which I gave my models, the function did not the same thing: once it