statistics-7.ppt

Introduction to analysis of variance Suppose you are interested in determining whether certain situations produce differing amounts of stress. You know the amount of the hormone corticosterone (HC) circulating in the blood is a good measure of how stressed a person is. You randomly assign 15 students into three groups of 5 each. The students in group 1 have their HC levels measured immediately after returning from vacations (low stress). The students in group 2 have their HC levels measured after they have been in class for a week (moderate stress). The students in group 3 are measured immediately before final exam week (high stress). All measurements are taken at the same time of day. You record the data shown in Table 7.1. Scores are in milligrams of HC per 100 milliliters of blood. Table 7.1----sample data group1 group2 group3 X1 X2 X3 2 10 10 3 8 13 7 7 14 2 5 13 6 10 15 The distribution of statistic F F fundamentally is the ratio of two independent variance estimates of the same population variance σ2 The distribution of statistic F The analysis of variance ------ANOVA It is a statistical technique employed to analyze multigroup experiments. Using the F-test allows us to make one overall comparison that tells whether there is a significant difference between the means of the groups. If the groups are divided by a factor (for example: situation) to be investigated in the experiment, then the analysis of variance is called as one-way’s. The assumption of ANOVA The population of each group is of normal distribution The population of