The above model is easily fitted in much of the statistical software that will fit LMM. Fitting a LM to plant-level data To demonstrate the effects of pseudo-replication in this experiment, we will be evaluating a few different models. First, we fit an incorrect model: one that ignores the plot effects, and therefore has pseudo-replication.
Fitting a LM to plot-level data Probably one of the easiest ways to deal with multi-stratum data that avoids complex models, but that still fits a correct model, is to collapse the data by obtaining means, and then use these means as our response variable instead of the individual observations. This is the arithmetic average of five trees recall that there is one dead plant for this plot.
That is, the residual term represents the error associated with the plot mean for height. This is a clear consequence of pseudo-replication, where we have arrived at a different conclusion due to our incorrect consideration of the true-replication of an experiment. The predicted values for the means in both analyses are very similar, with differences only due to how the missing data were treated more on this below.
But, the standard errors of the mean SEM from this analysis are 0. This correction considers that under LMM often the null distribution of the test is unknown, and it accounts penalizes for the additional uncertainty introduced by the fact that we are using estimates of the variance component and not its true values. However, the p-value here is slightly larger because the Kenward-Roger correction has been used.
The above output resulted in predicted values for each family that are similar to the other analyses; however, the SEMs are much closer to the ones from the plot-level analysis.
One additional piece of information that we can obtain from our correct LMM are the estimates of two variance components. This information can be useful to improve the design of future experiments. But this might require a reduction in the number of EU if we want to keep the total number of trees constant. It is also interesting to note that the plot-level residual variance corresponded to 5.
This difference occurs because the residual variances represent different units: the former is from plot-means, and the latter is from individual plants.
Finally, mm is the number of MU per EU. It is possible to assess different experimental designs with varying numbers of plants per plot mm, with the use of the above equation, followed by power calculations of the statistical models. This is an additional advantage of LMM: they not only provide the correct analysis for any multi-stratum structure, but they also provide estimates of the variance components for each stratum, allowing us to understand the partition of variability of the response variable of interest.
Closing Remarks We have explored the consequences of pseudo-replication in some statistical models, in that they can lead to incorrect conclusions. But, which of these two is a better approach?
Clearly the answer is the LMM as it uses all data at its appropriate level and also it provides us with an estimation of the contribution of the variability for each stratum. One additional advantage, which was not discussed above, is that the LMM allows us to treat missing data at random easily. In our example, there were a different number of live plants per plot. This was not an issue for our LMM methodology as it used all raw information with its appropriate weight to obtain unbiased family mean estimates.
Finally, note that our approach to deal with pseudo-replication, and indirectly with multi-stratum structure, using LMM can be easily extended to other more complex cases. For example, those where we have sub-sampling within measurement units. In all cases, using random effects that identify each stratum will take care of the complex nature of our experiment providing us with the correct degrees of freedom and therefore, our main goal of obtaining the correct statistical inference is achieved.
In this course we will focus on the fundamentals of using ASReml-R version 4 for the analyses of experimental data to fit models for biological studies. In this course we will focus on using ASReml-R to fit linear mixed models LMM for the analysis of data from clinical trials in the context of medical research studies. In this course we will focus on using ASReml-R to fit linear mixed models LMM for the analysis of data from clinical trials in the context of biostatistics.
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A character giving terms from either the random or residual models that are to be ignored in that their contributions to the variance is not to be included in the estimated matrix. The term names are those given in the vparameters component of the asreml object or the varcomp component produced by summary. This can be used in conjunction with estimateV.
A character vector giving one or mor spline terms in the random model that are regarded as fixed and so are to be ignored because they are not regarded as contributing to the variance. A character specifying one or more bound codes that will result in a variance parameter in the random model being excluded from contributing to the variance.
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