Model structure: fixed = Y ~ poly(x, 2) * factor
The dredge output shows only: [...] factor, poly(x,2) , factor:poly(x,2)
instead of: [...] factor, poly(x,1) , poly(x,2) , factor:poly(x,1) , factor:poly(x,2)
It is unclear for me how to interpret this output, since i can not tell whether the evaluation is done for the models with/without both orders 1 and 2 of variable x or not, i.e. just the higher order. Besides, how can i see the evaluation of the models with only the order 1 of x?
Here: dredge in MuMin (R) keeps models with higher order terms without their respective lower order terms the OP asked something very similar, but in relation to the funtion "poly" he only satated the following, and no answer dealt with it: "I have tried also using poly(hour,2) to define the global model but this results in only including a single term for hour."
So you want to get the table of coefficients (the default output of
"model.selection"
shows model terms with coefficient values only when there is only one coefficient for a term). Thecoef
method does that.