I think it is measurements nested in specimen nested in wiretype.
Your main objective is to identify whether variation among wiretype is
significant or not. Right?
Pete
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:12 PM, David Airey
<[email protected]> wrote:
> .
>
> I was confused by your data layout.
>
> Your data are really just 3 columns wide:
>
> WireType WireNo Force
>
> where wiretype and wireno are replicated 5 times,
>
> So
>
> anova force wiretype / wireno|wiretype /
>
> is fine, or the equivalent xtmixed...
>
> -Dave
>
> On Mar 14, 2009, at 3:16 AM, Nikolaos Pandis wrote:
>
>> Dear Statalisters,
>>
>> I have the following dataset (except I have it in long format-one
>> measurement per row) :
>>
>> WireType WireNo Trial Force
>>
>> A A1 1,2,3,4,5 5 measurements-1 per trial
>> A A2 1,2,3,4,5 5 measurements-1 per trial
>> A A3 1,2,3,4,5 5 measurements-1 per trial
>> A A4 1,2,3,4,5 5 measurements-1 per trial
>> A A5 1,2,3,4,5 5 measurements-1 per trial
>>
>> B B1 1,2,3,4,5 5 measurements-1 per trial
>> B B2 1,2,3,4,5 5 measurements-1 per trial
>> B B3 1,2,3,4,5 5 measurements-1 per trial
>> B B4 1,2,3,4,5 5 measurements-1 per trial
>> B B5 1,2,3,4,5 5 measurements-1 per trial
>>
>>
>> C C1 1,2,3,4,5 5 measurements-1 per trial
>> C C2 1,2,3,4,5 5 measurements-1 per trial
>> C C3 1,2,3,4,5 5 measurements-1 per trial
>> C C4 1,2,3,4,5 5 measurements-1 per trial
>> C C5 1,2,3,4,5 5 measurements-1 per trial
>>
>> D D1 1,2,3,4,5 5 measurements-1 per trial
>> D D2 1,2,3,4,5 5 measurements-1 per trial
>> D D3 1,2,3,4,5 5 measurements-1 per trial
>> D D4 1,2,3,4,5 5 measurements-1 per trial
>> D D5 1,2,3,4,5 5 measurements-1 per trial
>>
>> I am testing the forces generated by 4 different wiretypes to see if there
>> are significant differences.
>> For each wiretype (categorical A B C D) I am using 5 specimens
>> (A1-5,..D1-5) and for each specimen I am repeating the measurement 5 times.
>> The outcome is force and it is a continuous variable.
>>
>> This looks like a repeated measures with each trial nested in the WireNo
>> and the WireNo nested inside WireType?
>>
>> I was trying to use the xtgee command but I was not sure how to construct
>> it:
>> xi:xtreg force i.xxxxx i.yyyyyy, i(zzzzz) ?
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>>
>> Nikolaos
>>
>>
>>
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