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st: rmanova or anova with repeated command, what to use?
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st: rmanova or anova with repeated command, what to use? 
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Tue, 4 Oct 2011 21:58:04 +0200 
Dear statalisters,
Some time ago we performed a randomized crossover study in which we
monitored the lung function of a group of volunteers  during three days. Day
1 was used to determine baseline lung function whereas day 2 and 3 were used
to monitor lung function after inhaling either placebo (air) or active gas
(oxygen) under hyperbaric  condition. During each measurement day lung
function was measured 6 times. All variables and observations were put in a
dataset which initially had the following format:
ID           Group      Time                     Result1 etc
1             0          0                             6.19
2             0          0                             5.97
.             .          .                              .
.             .          .                              .
13            2          22                           5.33
Etc
ID exist of 13 persons (nr 1-13)
Group: 0 (baseline), 1 (placebo), 2 (active)
Time: pre, 0, 2, 4, 8, 12, 22 hours after exposure
We want to perform a repeated measures anova as all subject performed all
three test days which makes the groups not independent. The format we had in
mind was to search for differences between the groups at a specific time
point and to look for a correlation between Result1, etc and variable time.
I found two possibilities of doing a repeated measures anova using Stata
9.2:
1.	Using Ado rmanova written by George Hoffman
2.	Using anova with command repeated.
I tried both commands but they gave some contradictory results. To gave an
example I put in the log results of one test:
. rmanova FEF50 id time group
ANOVA for var FEF50 by subject ID
n=198 df=32 R2=.90011879
between effect: group
                  Source |  Partial SS    df       MS           F     Prob >
F
 
-------------+----------------------------------------------------
                   group |   94.488177     2  47.2440885       0.17
0.8420
             id*group |  8196.56138    30  273.218713   
within effect: time
                  Source |  Partial SS    df       MS           F     Prob >
F
 
-----------+----------------------------------------------------
                    Time |   218.17681    17    12.83393       1.78
0.0343
                Residual |  1226.78373   170  7.21637487   
. anova FEF50 id group time, repeated(group time)
                           Number of obs =     198     R-squared     =
0.8668
                           Root MSE      = 2.68633     Adj R-squared =
0.8457
                  Source |  Partial SS    df       MS           F     Prob >
F
 
-----------+----------------------------------------------------
                   Model |  7984.27781    27  295.713993      40.98
0.0000
                         |
                    Id   |    7766.101    10    776.6101     107.62
0.0000
                   group |  45.8076387     2  22.9038193       3.17
0.0443
                    time |  123.688633    15  8.24590887       1.14
0.3222
                         |
                Residual |  1226.78373   170  7.21637487   
 
-----------+----------------------------------------------------
                   Total |  9211.06154   197  46.7566576   
Between-subjects error term:  id
                     Levels:  11        (10 df)
     Lowest b.s.e. variable:  id
Repeated variable: group
                                          Huynh-Feldt epsilon        =
0.6682
                                          Greenhouse-Geisser epsilon =
0.6227
                                          Box's conservative epsilon =
0.5000
                                            ------------ Prob > F
------------
                  Source |     df      F    Regular    H-F      G-G      Box
 
-----------+----------------------------------------------------
                   group |      2     3.17   0.0443   0.0651   0.0685
0.0784
                Residual |    170
 
-----------+----------------------------------------------------
Repeated variable: time
                                          Huynh-Feldt epsilon        =
0.4478
                                          Greenhouse-Geisser epsilon =
0.2469
                                          Box's conservative epsilon =
0.0667
                                            ------------ Prob > F
------------
                  Source |     df      F    Regular    H-F      G-G      Box
 
-----------+----------------------------------------------------
                    Time |     15     1.14   0.3222   0.3460   0.3482
0.3073
                Residual |    170
 
-----------+----------------------------------------------------
. log close
In rmanova there is a significant correlation with FEF50 and time
(p=0.0343), while in the anova with repeated command test there is none such
correlation. Can anyone advise us which option we should use: rmanova or
anova with the repeated command? Many thanks.
Sincerely Yours,
Pieter-Jan van Ooij
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