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Critical Care April 2004 Vol 8 No 2 Bewick et al. Review Statistics review 9: One-way analysis of variance 1 1 2 Viv Bewick , Liz Cheek and Jonathan Ball 1Senior Lecturer, School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK 2Lecturer in Intensive Care Medicine, St George’s Hospital Medical School, London, UK Correspondence: Viv Bewick, v.bewick@brighton.ac.uk Published online: 1 March 2004 Critical Care 2004, 8:130-136 (DOI 10.1186/cc2836) This article is online at /content/8/2/130 © 2004 BioMed Central Ltd (Print ISSN 1364-8535; Online ISSN 1466-609X) Abstract This review introduces one-way analysis of variance, which is a method of testing differences between more than two groups or treatments. Multiple comparison procedures and orthogonal contrasts are described as methods for identifying specific differences between pairs of treatments. Keywords analysis of variance, multiple comparisons, orthogonal contrasts, type I error Introduction If multiple t-tests are carried out, then the type I error rate will Analysis of variance (often referred to as ANOVA) is a increase with the number of comparisons made. For example, in technique for analyzing the way in which the mean of a a study involving four treatments, there are six possible pairwise variable is affected by different types and combinations of comparisons. (The number of pairwise comparisons is given by