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An Introduction to Dummy, Effect, and Orthogonal Coding George H Olson, Ph. D. Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership Appalachian State University (Fall 2010) Table of Contents Introduction Two-group design Dummy Coding Effect/Orthogonal Coding One-way ANOVA design Dummy Coding Effect Coding Orthogonal Coding Factorial ANOVA design Dummy Coding Effect Coding Orthogonal Coding When we test a null hypothesis that, say, the means of two populations are equal, e.g., H0:this is tantamount to hypothesizing that the knowledge of group membership provides no information to help us