On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, AJ Smit wrote: > I was looking at the aov documentation page and came across the > following which seems like a contradiction to me: > > " This provides a wrapper to |lm| for fitting linear models to balanced > or unbalanced experimental designs." (I presume 'This' refers to aov) > > and > > "|aov| is designed for balanced designs, and the results can be hard to > interpret without balance"
and that is part of a Note, not even a whole sentence of it. In particular, the note has extra force for the multistratum designs mentioned there. > So, do I use it for unbalanced designs? You _can_ use it, but the results _can_ be hard to interpret. That is not a `contradiction' -- perhaps you need to consult your dictionary? You may do better to use something else, like lme(), hence the `Note'. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
