### $Id: HR.q,v 1.1 1999/10/13 00:50:09 saikat Exp $ ### Analysis of the Heart rate data given as data set 3.5 in ### "SAS System for Mixed Models" options(contrasts = c(factor = "contr.SAS", ordered = "contr.poly")) formula(HR) plot(HR) # basic trellis plot plot(HR, outer = ~ Drug ) # by drug type fm1HR <- lme( HR ~ Time * Drug + baseHR, data = HR, # linear trend in time random = ~ Time | Patient, method = "ML") summary( fm1HR ) fm2HR <- update( fm1HR, weights = varPower(0) ) # use power-of-mean variance summary( fm2HR ) intervals( fm2HR ) # variance function does not seem significant anova( fm1HR, fm2HR ) # confirm with likelihood ratio fm3HR <- update( fm1HR, HR ~ Time + Drug + baseHR ) # remove interaction anova( fm1HR, fm3HR ) summary( fm3HR ) fm4HR <- update( fm3HR, HR ~ Time + baseHR ) # remove Drug term anova( fm1HR, fm3HR, fm4HR ) summary( fm4HR ) plot( augPred( fm4HR, length = 2 ) ) # compare predictions and data