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How to run several one-way ANOVAs in R using on different categories?

Thanks for reading my post. I understand how to run non-parametric and parametric tests on three or more groups. But what I haven't figured out was a simple way of doing this multiple times from different categories I am interested in. In my dataset, I have gene copies for various antibiotic classes and I want to see if there are significant differences between samples in each antibiotic class. My data is currently in long format and looks like this:

Sample     Class      Value

  A       Macrolide  0.22 
  A       Macrolide  0.45
  A       Macrolide  0.63
  B       Macrolide  0.25
  B       Macrolide  0.28
 B       Macrolide  0.47
  C       Macrolide  0.22
 C       Macrolide  0.26
 C       Macrolide  0.29
  A       Ceph  0.32 
  A       Ceph  0.42
  A      Ceph  0.62
  B       Ceph  0.42
  B       Ceph  0.20
  B     Ceph  0.91
  C       Ceph  0.82
  C      MCeph  0.92

So essentially I want to do a one-way ANOVA for Macrolides and then another for Ceph etc etc. Can someone help me?

Thanks

r gene statistics anova

3 answers

One approach is to nest the data in a data frame with a list column. You can then use purrr::map to run a function for each group, tidy the results and unnest.

Using the same df1 as in the answer from @zx8754:

library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
library(purrr)

df1 %>% 
  nest(-Class) %>% 
  mutate(model = map(data, ~anova(lm(Value ~ Sample, .))), 
         tidy = map(model, tidy)) %>% 
select(Class, td) %>% 
unnest()

Result:

# A tibble: 6 x 7
  Class     term         df  sumsq meansq statistic p.value
  <chr>     <chr>     <int>  <dbl>  <dbl>     <dbl>   <dbl>
1 Macrolide Sample        2 0.0471 0.0235     1.22    0.358
2 Macrolide Residuals     6 0.115  0.0192    NA      NA    
3 Ceph      Sample        2 0.103  0.0515     0.662   0.564
4 Ceph      Residuals     4 0.311  0.0777    NA      NA    
5 MCeph     Sample        2 0.161  0.0804     0.447   0.727
6 MCeph     Residuals     1 0.18   0.18      NA      NA

More details: Running a model on separate groups.

Thanks this was extremely helpful!

Hi infenit101,

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I did some editions to your code for avoiding error or warning messages:

df1 %>% 
  nest(data = c(Sample, Value)) %>% 
  mutate(model = map(data, ~anova(lm(Value ~ Sample, .))), 
         tidy = map(model, broom::tidy)) %>% 
  select(Class, tidy) %>% 
  unnest(tidy)

Thank you for your help. May I ask you how to specifically run Type III anova for this multiple cathegories?

Split data by class, then run your favourite function, see example:

# example data
df1 <- read.table(text = "Sample    Class   Value
A   Macrolide   0.22
A   Macrolide   0.45
A   Macrolide   0.63
B   Macrolide   0.25
B   Macrolide   0.28
B   Macrolide   0.47
C   Macrolide   0.22
C   Macrolide   0.26
C   Macrolide   0.29
A   Ceph    0.32
A   Ceph    0.42
A   Ceph    0.62
B   Ceph    0.42
B   Ceph    0.2
B   Ceph    0.91
C   Ceph    0.82
C   MCeph   0.92
A   MCeph   0.2
B   MCeph   0.72
C   MCeph   0.32
", header = TRUE, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

# split and apply function, result is a named list:
lapply(split(df1, df1$Class), function(i){
  anova(lm(Value ~ Sample, data = i))
})

$Ceph
Analysis of Variance Table

Response: Value
          Df  Sum Sq  Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)
Sample     2 0.10293 0.051467  0.6622 0.5644
Residuals  4 0.31087 0.077717               

$Macrolide
Analysis of Variance Table

Response: Value
          Df   Sum Sq  Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)
Sample     2 0.047089 0.023544  1.2241 0.3582
Residuals  6 0.115400 0.019233               

$MCeph
Analysis of Variance Table

Response: Value
          Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)
Sample     2 0.1608  0.0804  0.4467 0.7268
Residuals  1 0.1800  0.1800

Hello I was looking to do a similar analysis for my data so THANK you for this information it was very useful to me as well. However, I do have a question and I realize this is an old post so I hope you are still part of this community. What R coding would you use to run the 4 diagnostic plots to check your assumptions for each of these Anovas?

lisa. sims: did you figure this out? I have the same issue

Hi! How can I find Tukey's Honestly significant p-value for each class here? It will be a great help.

Couldn't you just subset your dataframe for Class. i.e.

> library(lmPerm)
> data.df = read.csv("data.txt")

> aov.macro <- lmPerm::aovp(Value ~ Sample, subset(data.df,data.df$Class == "Macrolide")  )
[1] "Settings:  unique SS "
> summary(aov.macro)
Component 1 :
            Df R Sum Sq R Mean Sq Pr(Exact)
Sample       2 0.047089  0.023544         1
Residuals    6 0.115400  0.019233          


> ceph.macro <- lmPerm::aovp(Value ~ Sample, subset(data.df,data.df$Class == "Ceph")  )
[1] "Settings:  unique SS "
> summary(ceph.macro)
Component 1 :
            Df R Sum Sq R Mean Sq Pr(Exact)
Sample       2  0.10293  0.051467         1
Residuals    4  0.31087  0.077717          

> mceph.macro <- lmPerm::aovp(Value ~ Sample, subset(data.df,data.df$Class == "MCeph")  )
Error in ctrfn(levels(x), contrasts = contrasts) : 
  not enough degrees of freedom to define contrasts

Not sure if that was intentional but you have one class labelled as MCeph. Seems like a typo, or the data is truncated? If not, you don't have enough degrees of freedom to do an anova on that class (you'd need at least one of each Sample for the function to even work).

Thanks so much! Yes that was a typo.

Can I use the same subsetted dataframe for TukeyHSD?

a small comment, you don't need to write lmPerm::aovp since you already loaded the library

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