Silence on this so far? Trying here one more time, otherwise I'll submit it as a bug report ...
cheers Ben Bolker On 2019-01-17 12:32 p.m., Ben Bolker wrote: > tl;dr anova.lme() claims to provide sums of squares, but it doesn't. And > some names are misspelled in ?lme. I can submit all this stuff as a bug > report if that's preferred. > > ?anova.lme says: > > When only one fitted model object is present, a data frame with > the sums of squares, numerator degrees of freedom, denominator > degrees of freedom, F-values, and P-values > > The output of > > fm1 <- lme(distance ~ age, data = Orthodont) # random is ~ age > anova(fm1) > > gives columns > > numDF denDF F-value p-value > > -- i.e. the sums of squares aren't there! (For fairly good reasons; lme > doesn't actually compute them internally, and it might not always be > straightforward to compute them, for more complex models. They would > mostly be useful for comparison with simpler, method-of-moments based > approaches like aov()). Federico Calboli pointed this out on r-help in > 2004: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2004-May/051444.html > > > Two more points: > > * the last sentence of the Description might need one fewer comma > [after "statistic"] or one more [after "p-value"]. > * in ?lme, Littell's name is misspelled at least twice and Reinsel's > at least once. > > Is there a publicly accessible SVN server for recommended packages (in > general) and nlme (in particular) anywhere? > > cheers > Ben Bolker > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
