MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE AND ITS

IMPLEMENTATION IN THE FIELD OF NUTRITION

By
Yogya Ardi Winata
NIM. 11305141033

ABSTRACT

Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA) is an analysis of

covariance with more than one dependent variable and involve concomitant
variable or covariate. MANCOVA is a blend of regression and multivariate
analysis of variance (MANOVA). MANCOVA which consist of one factor and
two covariates is called one-way MANCOVA with two covariates. The aim of
writing the thesis was to know the test procedures of MANCOVA and its
implementation in the field of nutrition.
The test procedure of one-way MANCOVA with two covariate includes:
(1) Assumption test of one-way MANCOVA which consist of five assumption,
that are a linear relationship between dependent variable and concomittan
variable, the coefficient of regression plane between homogeneous treatments, the
independence of the observation object, dependent variable distributed normal
multivariate on each treatment, and equality of covariance matrices among the
treatments (2) Hypothesis test of MANCOVA with Wilk’s Lambda test (3) Post
hoc test MANCOVA with Bryant-Paulson procedure (BP), if the the results of
hypothesis test on MANCOVA shows the effect of treatment on the dependent
variable.
The Implementation of one-way MANCOVA with two covariates in the
field of nutrition was the research to determine the effect of different class levels
to the average of frequency in eating foods (times per day), energy intake (kcal),
and protein intake (g) students of MTs Nurul Ummah Yogyakarta after adjusting
for two covariates such as weight (kg) and the age (years) of students.
MANCOVA test with Wilk’s Lambda test resulted the value of
Λ=0,429< Λ 0.05;3,2,19 =0,496 and sig = 0,019 < 0,05 which showed that the effects
of treatment on the dependent variable. Post hoc test MANCOVA which was only
on protein intake variable in the 1st and 3rd class level showed a significant
difference, that was | BP | = 3.86> 3.795.

Keywords: MANCOVA, implementation of MANCOVA, covariance analysis,

post hoc MANCOVA