The SAS System 22:07 Saturday, July 12, 2008 1 The Mixed Procedure Model Information Data Set WORK.MICE Dependent Variable gain Covariance Structure Variance Components Estimation Method REML Residual Variance Method Profile Fixed Effects SE Method Model-Based Degrees of Freedom Method Satterthwaite Class Level Information Class Levels Values cage 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 condition 4 1 2 3 4 diet 3 normal restrict suppleme Dimensions Covariance Parameters 3 Columns in X 20 Columns in Z 18 Subjects 1 Max Obs Per Subject 36 Number of Observations Number of Observations Read 36 Number of Observations Used 36 Number of Observations Not Used 0 Iteration History Iteration Evaluations -2 Res Log Like Criterion 0 1 163.79395768 1 3 163.26719952 0.00089297 2 2 163.23016423 0.00010079 3 1 163.22381234 0.00000089 4 1 163.22375924 0.00000000 Convergence criteria met. The SAS System 22:07 Saturday, July 12, 2008 2 The Mixed Procedure Covariance Parameter Estimates Cov Parm Estimate cage 3.0373 cage*condition 0 Residual 27.8431 Fit Statistics -2 Res Log Likelihood 163.2 AIC (smaller is better) 167.2 AICC (smaller is better) 167.8 BIC (smaller is better) 166.8 Type 3 Tests of Fixed Effects Num Den Effect DF DF F Value Pr > F condition 3 23.6 2.71 0.0677 diet 2 20.2 0.93 0.4090 condition*diet 6 20.2 1.73 0.1661