On 6 Mar 2003 at 10:38, rob foxall (IFR) wrote:

You can use linear.hypothesis() from the
package car (on CRAN).

Kjetil Halvorsen

> Hello all,
> 
>             A really noddy question for you all: I'm trying without success to do 
> some subhypothesis testing. Using simple anova model, with a toy dataset from a 
> book. I have four factors A,B,C,D, and wish to test mu_C = mu_D. This is what I have 
> tried:
> 
>  
> 
> > contrasts(infants$group,how.many=1) <- c(0,0,1,-1)
> 
> > contrasts(infants$group)
> 
>   [,1]
> 
> A    0
> 
> B    0
> 
> C    1
> 
> D   -1
> 
> > fit <- aov(age~group,data=infants)
> 
> > summary(fit)
> 
>             Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)
> 
> group        1  0.740   0.740  0.2693 0.6092
> 
> Residuals   21 57.727   2.749               
> 
>  
> 
> Now I know from the book, hand calculations and SPSS that for "group", Sum Sq = Mean 
> Sq = 1.12, not 0.740. Also from the standard anova:
> 
>  
> 
> > contrasts(infants$group) <- "contr.treatment"
> 
> > fit <- aov(age~group,data=infants)
> 
> > summary(fit)
> 
>             Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)
> 
> group        3 14.778   4.926  2.1422 0.1285
> 
> Residuals   19 43.690   2.299         
> 
>  
> 
> So I'd like to have the (correct) Mean Sq value divided by 2.299 and not 2.749, with 
> 19 and not 21 df. Any advice on how to correctly use contrasts for subhypothesis 
> testing, including where to find it in the manuals, would be much appreciated.
> 
>  
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>             Rob.
> 
>  
> 
> (Other info)
> 
>  
> 
> Using R 1.6.2, windows xp, 
> 
>  
> 
> data:
> 
> > infants
> 
>    group   age
> 
> 1      A  9.00
> 
> 2      A  9.50
> 
> 3      A  9.75
> 
> 4      A 10.00
> 
> 5      A 13.00
> 
> 6      A  9.50
> 
> 7      B 11.00
> 
> 8      B 10.00
> 
> 9      B 10.00
> 
> 10     B 11.75
> 
> 11     B 10.50
> 
> 12     B 15.00
> 
> 13     C 11.50
> 
> 14     C 12.00
> 
> 15     C  9.00
> 
> 16     C 11.50
> 
> 17     C 13.25
> 
> 18     C 13.00
> 
> 19     D 13.25
> 
> 20     D 11.50
> 
> 21     D 12.00
> 
> 22     D 13.50
> 
> 23     D 11.50
> 
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