Have you considered the examples with "?TukeyHDS"? This may not work
with a standard "lme" object. However, I suspect that I could probably
get something useful from this for an "lme" by walking through the code
line by line.
spencer graves
Ghislain Vieilledent wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ghislain Vieilledent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 7 juil. 2005 11:38
> Subject: Re: [R] Plotting confidence intervals for lme
> To: Spencer Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> That's what I was looking for. Thanks a lot!
>
> That's true units are mixing and that values of coef depend on the contrasts
> but I want to use this graph in order to compare levels' coefficient of each
> of the factor taken independantly, not to compare factors' coefficients to
> eachothers. Does it mean something?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Ghislain Vieilledent.
>
>
>
> 2005/7/6, Spencer Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>>Consider the following extension of an example in "?lme":
>>
>>fm2 <- lme(distance ~ age + Sex, data = Orthodont, random = ~ 1)
>>int <- intervals(fm2)
>>class(int$fixed)
>>kf <- dim(int$fixed)[1]
>>plot(int$fixed[,2], kf:1,
>>xlab="x", ylab="", xlim=range(int$fixed),
>>axes=FALSE)
>>axis(1)
>>axis(2, kf:1, dimnames(int$fixed)[[1]])
>>segments(int$fixed[,1], kf:1,
>>int$fixed[,3], kf:1)
>>abline(v=0)
>>
>>However, we are mixing units, i.e., the units for the intercept are
>>"distance", while for "age" are "distance/time", and the interpretation
>>of the coefficient of a factor like Sex depends on contrasts used.
>>Thus, I don't know how much sense it makes to prepare plots like this.
>>
>>For similar plots that make more sense, see Pinheiro and Bates (2000
>>Mixed-Effects Models in S and S-PLUS (Springer).
>>
>>spencer graves
>>
>>Ghislain Vieilledent wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hello and sorry to disturb.
>>>
>>>I'm trying to plot the confidence intervals for the fixed effects of a
>>
>>lme.
>>
>>>I want to obtain graphically, if it is possible, a bar with Estimate,
>>
>>upper
>>
>>>and lower CI for each level of the factors.
>>>
>>>I know how to do for a lm model but for a lme one, I tried with
>>>plot(intervals(...)) and plot(ci(...)) from the gmodels package but it
>>>doesn't work well.
>>>
>>>Thanks for you help and have a good day.
>>>
>>
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