【发布时间】:2021-07-31 23:05:50
【问题描述】:
当我们对实验单元进行重复测量时,通常不能将这些单元视为“独立”的,需要以我们对标准误差进行有效估计的方式进行建模。
当我比较通过使用混合模型(将单位视为随机效应)计算处理的边际均值而获得的区间时,在另一种情况下,首先对单位进行平均,然后在平均响应,我得到完全相同的不确定区间。
我们如何将单位测量的不确定性纳入我们认为治疗效果的不确定性中?
为了真正传播所有的不确定性,我们不应该看看处理的样子,对一个单元的“所有可能的测量值”进行平均吗?
``` r
library(dplyr)
#>
#> Attaching package: 'dplyr'
#> The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
#>
#> filter, lag
#> The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
#>
#> intersect, setdiff, setequal, union
library(emmeans)
library(lme4)
#> Loading required package: Matrix
library(ggplot2)
tmp <- structure(list(treatment = c("A", "A", "A", "A", "A", "A", "A",
"A", "A", "A", "A", "A", "B", "B", "B", "B", "B", "B", "B", "B",
"B", "B", "B", "B"), response = c(151.27333548, 162.3933313,
159.2199999, 159.16666725, 210.82, 204.18666667, 196.97333333,
194.54666667, 154.18666667, 194.99333333, 193.48, 191.71333333,
124.1, 109.32666667, 105.32, 102.22, 110.83333333, 114.66666667,
110.54, 107.82, 105.62000069, 79.79999821, 77.58666557, 75.78666928
), experimental_unit = c("A-1", "A-1", "A-1", "A-1", "A-2", "A-2",
"A-2", "A-2", "A-3", "A-3", "A-3", "A-3", "B-1", "B-1", "B-1",
"B-1", "B-2", "B-2", "B-2", "B-2", "B-3", "B-3", "B-3", "B-3"
)), row.names = c(NA, -24L), class = c("tbl_df", "tbl", "data.frame"
))
### Option 1 - Treat the experimental unit as a random effect since there are
### 4 repeat observations for the same unit
lme4::lmer(response ~ treatment + (1 | experimental_unit), data = tmp) %>%
emmeans::emmeans(., ~ treatment) %>%
as.data.frame()
#> treatment emmean SE df lower.CL upper.CL
#> 1 A 181.0794 10.83359 4 151.00058 211.1583
#> 2 B 101.9683 10.83359 4 71.88947 132.0472
#ggplot(.,aes(treatment, emmean)) +
#geom_pointrange(aes(ymin = lower.CL, ymax = upper.CL))
### Option 2 - instead of treating the unit as random effect, we average over the
### 4 repeat observations, and run a simple linear model
tmp %>%
group_by(experimental_unit) %>%
summarise(mean_response = mean(response)) %>%
mutate(treatment = c(rep("A", 3), rep("B", 3))) %>%
lm(mean_response ~ treatment, data = .) %>%
emmeans::emmeans(., ~ treatment) %>%
as.data.frame()
#> treatment emmean SE df lower.CL upper.CL
#> 1 A 181.0794 10.83359 4 151.00058 211.1583
#> 2 B 101.9683 10.83359 4 71.88947 132.0472
#ggplot(., aes(treatment, emmean)) +
#geom_pointrange(aes(ymin = lower.CL, ymax = upper.CL))
### Whether we include a random effect for the unit, or average over it and THEN model it, we find no difference in the
### marginal means for the treatments
### How do we incoporate the variation of the repeat measurments to the marginal means of the treatments?
### Do we then ignore the variation in the 'subsamples' and simply average over them PRIOR to modeling?
<sup>Created on 2021-07-31 by the [reprex package](https://reprex.tidyverse.org) (v2.0.0)</sup>
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