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Subject: plot mean fixed effects
From: Bernd Puschner <puschner@psyres-stuttgart.de>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 15:08:03 +0100
Organization: Forschungsstelle für Psychotherapie Stuttgart
dear s-plus-users,

i have a lme-model (longitudinal data, 2-4 observations per subject
(CODE) with:
IN.THER = time in psychotherapy in days (continuous);
SCSW.010 = outcome (continuous);
THER = type of psychotherapy (3-level-factor);
Number of Observations: 1138;
Number of Groups: 400.

model.lme <- lme (data = data.gr, 
 random =  ~IN.THER | CODE, fixed =  SCSW.010 ~ IN.THER * THER) 
 
resulting in the follwing fixed effects:

> fixef(model.lme)
 (Intercept)       IN.THER      THER1      THER2 
   0.9847708 -0.0007369537 0.05211695 -0.0108868
 IN.THERTHER1   IN.THERTHER2 
 -0.000227367 -0.00005134491

now i would like to plot the mean fixed effects which should result in
three pretty much overlapping "slowly" descending lines (one for each
factor level; time in pt on the x-axis and the mean fixed-effect values
on the y-axis), i.e.:
for 1st type of psychotherapy: 0.9740448 + 0.05211695  + IN.THER *
-0.0007369537 + IN.THER * -0.000227367 
for 2nd type of psychotherapy: 0.9740448 + (-0.0108868) + IN.THER *
-0.0007369537 + IN.THER * -0.00005134491
for 3rd type of psychotherapy: 0.9740448 + IN.THER * -0.0007369537

i checked all lme-functions i could think of (predict, augPred, fitted,
etc.) but cannot find a suitable solution. any help would be highly
appreciated.

thanks a lot

bernd

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