ANOVA - Analysis of Variance Flashcards
Very flexible and general technique, and the principles can be applied to a wide range of statistical tests.
- Has a wide range of applications.
- Many of applications make some tricky assumptions about the data.
ANOVA
In ANOVA we measure an _____ (also called a dependent variable).
outcome variable
This outcome must be measured on a ______
continuous scale.
- It is called _____because it depends on one or more predictor variables.
dependent
_______ can be Manipulated (Treatment) or variables we simply measure (Sex).
Predictor variable
In ANOVA, predictor variables are mostly _____, although continuous variables can also be used in the same framework.
categorical
When predictor variables are categorical, they are also called_____ or _____
FACTORS or INDEPENDENT VARIABLES
measurement of differences.
ANOVA
Differences happen for two reasons: (a) because of the effect of ______ (b) because of ____
a. predictor variables
b. other reasons
In ANOVA, we want to know two things:
- How much of the variance (difference) between the two groups is due to the predictor variable
- Whether this proportion of variance is statistically significant, that is, it is larger than we would expect by chance if the null hypothesis were true?
We can divide (statisticians sometimes say partition) variance into three different types:
The Total Variance
Variance due to treatment, (Differences between Group)
Variance due to Error (Differences within Group)
In ANOVA, the ______ is conceptualized as sums of squared deviations from the ____
- variance
- mean
It is usually shortened to sum of squares and denoted by _____
SS or Sum of Squares
The 3 Sum of Squares
- Between-groups Sum of Squares
- Error Sum of Squares
- Total Sum of Squares
Total Sum of Squares, called
SStotal
We are asking whether the _____ (or the effect of the predictor) is big enough that we could say it is not due to chance.
difference between the groups
________
this is the variance that represents the difference between the groups, and this is called ____
. Sometimes it refers to the
between-groups sum of squares for one predictor, in which case it is called SS predictor. Sometimes it is called
- Between-groups Sum of Squares
- SSbetween
- SStreatment
The between-groups variance is the_____ that we are actually interested in
variance
also called within-groups sum of squares.
Error sum of squares
It’s within the groups, because different people, who have had the same treatment, have ____
different scores.
They have different scores because of error. So this is called either ___ or ___
SSwithin or SSerror
We need to calculate the three kinds of Sum of Squares,____ and _____
- TOTAL
- WITHIN GROUPS
- BETWEEN GROUPS.
sum of squared differences between the mean and each score
SStotal
- Step 1: Find the Mean of the scores.
- Step 2: Calculate the difference between each score and the mean score.
- Step 3: Calculate the Squared deviations
- Step 4: Find the Sum of the Squared Deviations
Calculating the SS total
- Procedure is very similar.
- This time we are looking for the sum of squares within each group.
- Rather than using the total mean, we use the mean for each group.
Calculating the SSwithin
Easy way and hard way.
- SStotal = SSwithin + SSbetween
- Thus: SS Between = SS Total – SS Within
Calculating SSbetween
To know how large the effect of the treatment has been.
Effect size
The same as asking what proportion of the Total Variance (or Total Sum of Squares) the treatment effect has been responsible for
effect size