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Re: st: Intraclass Correlation for an Independent Variable?
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Steve Samuels <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Intraclass Correlation for an Independent Variable?
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Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:43:04 -0400
Lloyd, Whether, and how, to include the worker measurements as
predictors of plant outcomes are substantive questions that I don't
think I can answer.
Steve
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Lloyd Dumont <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you for your advice on this, Steve. From a technical/statistical point-of-view, it was very helpful. I ran -loneway- on the dataset of individual workers. The F-stat was about 1.24, generating a p-value far greater than I would have wanted in order to please the reviewer--about .24.
>
> Given that, is there anything I can do to make the case for these measures? Is there a way to "correct for" the heterskedasticity of the estimated means for each plant before collapsing them into a dataset of plant-months? Off the top of my head, the first thing I thought of was to -collapse- the data using medians as opposed to means. That way, I could at least be assured that outliars are not influencing each plant's score. Interestingly, when I did that, the results in the regression of plant-months became a little stronger.
>
> Thank you again. Lloyd
>
> --- On Wed, 8/11/10, Steve Samuels <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> From: Steve Samuels <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: st: Intraclass Correlation for an Independent Variable?
>> To: [email protected]
>> Date: Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 5:47 PM
>> I didn't read the second part of your
>> message closely enough. ICCs
>> can be computed for any variable measured in groups,and the
>> reviewer's
>> terminology is impeccable. -loneway- should do what
>> you want. But
>> "search intraclass, all" will find some extensions.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Steve Samuels <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > The reviewer could well want to know if the plant
>> differences in the X
>> > means are real. So, yes, he or she could really mean
>> "X". This is
>> > the kind of question you'd test with a one-way ANOVA,
>> or KW. You will
>> > need the data from the individual worker X
>> measurements, or the
>> > plant-specific sample sizes and variances.
>> >
>> > Steve
>> > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Lloyd Dumont <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >> Hello. I have gotten a confusing note from a
>> reviewer, confusing in part because I think he/she is using
>> the wrong terminology.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> In a nutshell…
>> >>
>> >> I am running a cross-sectional time series model
>> (on a dataset of plant-months) of a continuous variable Y
>> measured at the plant level where the focal, continuous
>> independent variable is X. X is also at the plant-level,
>> but is time-constant. X is formed by taking the mean level
>> of X from all of the individual workers in each plant.
>> >>
>> >> The reviewer suggests that I include some measure
>> of within versus between plant variance in X. This would
>> bolster the case that there is a genuine difference across
>> plants rather than average differences simply reflecting
>> noise. He/she then goes on to suggest I do this by
>> reporting intraclass correlations (ICCs).
>> >>
>> >> As far as I understand it, ICCs (or rho) describe
>> the variance in Y, not X. If I am right, then the reviewer
>> did not mean ICC.
>> >>
>> >> Rather, he/she wants me to go back to the dataset
>> of individuals (not plant-months) and wants me to run some
>> simple analysis to show that there is clustering of values
>> for X by plant.
>> >>
>> >> Am I correctly understanding what the reviewer is
>> asking for? And, if so, what is the simplest way to
>> demonstrate the sort of dependence he/she is hoping to see?
>> >>
>> >> Thank you for your help. Lloyd
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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