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I am currently building a linear mixed model with repeated measurements in SPSS. My syntax is:

MIXED measurement BY female mediansplit time WITH age

/CRITERIA=DFMETHOD(SATTERTHWAITE) CIN(95) MXITER(100) MXSTEP(10) SCORING(1)

SINGULAR(0.000000000001) HCONVERGE(0, ABSOLUTE) LCONVERGE(0, ABSOLUTE) PCONVERGE(0.000001, ABSOLUTE)

/FIXED=female mediansplit time age mediansplit*time | SSTYPE(3)

/METHOD=ML

/REPEATED=time | SUBJECT(study_id) COVTYPE(AR1)

/TEST=’mediansplit over time 0 vs 1’ mediansplit -1 1.

Meadiansplit = 2 levels (0 & 1), Time = 7 levels (0-6)

To find out if there are differences between the two groups of the mediansplit over time I want to calculate ANOVA-style contrasts. To my knowledge this is the /TEST command in SPSS for LMM (last line of my syntax). However, when running the above model, I get the warning “Custom hypothesis test 1 (mediansplit over time 0 vs 1) will not be performed because the L matrix is not estimable”.

So, my question is: how do I have to adjust the /TEST command?

Thanks!

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As mediansplit has only two levels you get the outcome of the significance test from the Fixed Effect table and if you request the estimated marginal means tables /EMMEANS=TABLES(mediansplit) you get the same in terms of a t-test.

The error occurs as soon as you specify an interaction in the /fixed statement. It should work if you omit the interaction.

I encountered the same problem with a test on a specific contrast for a seven-level factor, where I wanted to test the mean of the first four levels against the mean of the other three levels and I never found a solution with the /TEST command. I eventually created a set of orthogonal contrast variables for the whole fixed model and entered them as covariates that included the one that I was interested in.

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