It usually means that the parameter is redundant or not estimable. It usually
happens when your model involves a lot of factors and interactions and the data
structure (experimental design) is inconsistent with estimating sums of squares
for all the terms.
"h.siala" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was just wondering what does a dots (.) signify when it fills the columns
> of the Effects or Parameters table in the MANOVA output.
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