如何从 R 中的线性模型计算平均值?

How to calculate mean values from a linear model in R?


我正在处理一个关于保护及其对生物量影响的数据集,其中从英格兰北部一万公顷的土地上随机抽取了五十块土地,每块土地一公顷。

对于每块土地,记录了以下变量:

• 生物量:每平方米植被生物量的估计值。

• alt:地块的平均海拔高度,以米为单位。

• 缺点:分类变量,如果地块是保护区的一部分,则编码为 1,否则编码为 2。

• 土壤分类变量粗略地将土壤类型分类为 1 代表白垩,2 代表粘土,3 代表壤土。


目前我正在努力解决两件事:

如何根据我的拟合模型 (model1) 计算粘土 (soil2) 和壤土 (soil3) 之间生物量的平均差异,并计算此平均预测值的 95% 置信区间。

以及如何计算位于海拔 300 米以粘土为主的保护区的地块的平均预测生物量?

这是我正在使用的线性模型的摘要。

Call:
lm(formula = biomass ~ alt + soil + cons, data = conservation)

Residuals:
      Min        1Q    Median        3Q       Max 
-0.183105 -0.052926  0.005593  0.061844  0.194402 

Coefficients:
              Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)  2.2928629  0.0357850  64.073  < 2e-16 ***
alt         -0.0029068  0.0001302 -22.318  < 2e-16 ***
soil2       -0.0862220  0.0342955  -2.514   0.0156 *  
soil3       -0.2309939  0.0354480  -6.516 5.33e-08 ***
cons2        0.0488634  0.0292075   1.673   0.1013    
---
Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 0.09428 on 45 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.9459,    Adjusted R-squared:  0.9411 
F-statistic: 196.7 on 4 and 45 DF,  p-value: < 2.2e-16

这是数据:

dput(conservation)

structure(list(biomass = c(2.01, 2.06, 1.7, 2.07, 1.88, 2.11, 
0.98, 2.14, 1.75, 1.81, 2.15, 1.68, 2.23, 2.04, 1.67, 1.77, 1.74, 
1.53, 1.79, 2.15, 1.39, 2.19, 2.14, 2.29, 1.91, 1.73, 2.21, 1.96, 
2.07, 2.01, 2.2, 2.24, 1.33, 1.05, 1.36, 1.72, 1.44, 1.52, 2.09, 
1.42, 1.64, 0.92, 1.65, 1.37, 0.77, 1.57, 2.25, 2.23, 2.03, 1.18
), alt = c(116L, 21L, 130L, 65L, 117L, 82L, 359L, 5L, 86L, 91L, 
64L, 178L, 79L, 70L, 209L, 110L, 161L, 248L, 146L, 23L, 237L, 
84L, 40L, 7L, 161L, 122L, 25L, 146L, 67L, 118L, 42L, 57L, 277L, 
338L, 331L, 153L, 239L, 237L, 67L, 171L, 206L, 371L, 107L, 236L, 
482L, 240L, 56L, 42L, 68L, 436L), cons = structure(c(2L, 2L, 
1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 
1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 
1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L
), .Label = c("1", "2"), class = "factor"), soil = structure(c(2L, 
3L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 3L, 2L, 
3L, 2L, 2L, 3L, 1L, 3L, 2L, 1L, 3L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 3L, 
3L, 2L, 1L, 3L, 2L, 1L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 
2L), .Label = c("1", "2", "3"), class = "factor"), alt.factor = 
structure(c(1L, 
1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 
2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 
2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 
2L), .Label = c("below median", "above median"), class = "factor")), 
.Names = c("biomass", 
"alt", "cons", "soil", "alt.factor"), row.names = c(NA, -50L), class = 
"data.frame")

How to calculate the average difference in biomass between clay (soil2) and loam (soil3) soils based on my fitted model (model1) and calculate 95% confidence interval for this mean predicted value.

严格来说,这是我们所说的"linear hypothesis test"的特例。但我认为这不是你的任务的意图,所以我不会采用这种方法。如果您对此感兴趣,请阅读Get p-value for group mean difference without refitting linear model with a new reference level

我在这里要做的是简单地使用不同的因子水平作为对比并重新拟合您的模型。目前,您有 "soil1" 作为对比级别;我将 "soil2" 重置为对比度级别。看看 进行一般治疗。

fit <- lm(biomass ~ alt + soil + cons, data = conservation,
          contrasts = list(soil = contr.treatment(n = 3, base = 2)))

#Coefficients:
#              Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
#(Intercept)  2.2066409  0.0400572  55.087  < 2e-16 ***
#alt         -0.0029068  0.0001302 -22.318  < 2e-16 ***
#soil1        0.0862220  0.0342955   2.514   0.0156 *  
#soil3       -0.1447719  0.0325295  -4.450 5.59e-05 ***
#cons2        0.0488634  0.0292075   1.673   0.1013    
#---
#Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
#
#Residual standard error: 0.09428 on 45 degrees of freedom
#Multiple R-squared:  0.9459,   Adjusted R-squared:  0.9411 
#F-statistic: 196.7 on 4 and 45 DF,  p-value: < 2.2e-16

现在,"soil3" 的系数给出了 "soil3" 的组均值与对比水平 "soil2" 的差异。从模型的标准误差和残差自由度中获得该系数的置信区间非常简单,但同样,这对您来说可能过于技术化。考虑使用 confint:

confint(fit, "soil3", level = 0.95)
#           2.5 %     97.5 %
#soil3 -0.2102896 -0.0792541

And how to calculate the mean predicted biomass for a plot located in a conservation area with predominantly clay soil at an altitude of 300m?

对于响应 biomass 的预测,我们可以使用 predict:

predict(fit, newdata = list(alt = 300, soil = "2", cons = "1"))
#       1 
#1.334606 

所以预测平均值约为 1.3346