limma interaction term
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@pj-8012
Last seen 7.8 years ago
United States

Hi everybody,

I have a model with 2 main factors and its interaction:

designmodel = model.matrix(~0 + Factor1 + Factor2 + Factor1:Factor2)

Factor 1 has two levels and factor 2 has 4 levels. My question is if when I test the interaction term I can add all 8 groups as follow: 

contrastInteraction = makeContrasts(((Factor1.Level1Factor2 - Factor1.Level2Factor2 - Factor1.Level3Factor2 - Factor1.Level4Factor2 ) - (Factor2.Level1Factor2 - Factor2.Level2Factor2 - Factor2.Level3Factor2 - Factor2.Level4Factor2)),  levels=design)

Or shoud I test the interaction in 4 separate contrasts (one for each level of factor 2)? Thanks for you advice!

PJ 

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You don't provide a lot of details - what's your experimental design? What does Factor1 or Factor2 contain? - so it's hard to tell what the coefficient names mean, let alone whether you're doing something sensible with your contrasts.

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@gordon-smyth
Last seen 2 hours ago
WEHI, Melbourne, Australia

You model has 3 degrees of freedom for interaction. To test for interaction you would do:

fit <- lmFit(y, design)
fit <- eBayes(fit)
topTable(fit, coef=6:8)

There is no need to use makeContrasts().

Note that you must test all 3 df together. Trying to do separate tests for individual interaction contrasts has no meaning.

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