11/4/2016
One-Way ANOVA
Introduction to ANOVA
 ANOVA = ANalysis Of VAriance
 A clinical psychologist wanted to know
 When do we use?
 When we have 2+ levels of the IV(s)
Introduction to ANOVA
 Generalization of the t test
 Do not want to use many different t
tests
 Cannot use t test for more than one
IV, unless test separately
 Can use with either independent or
dependent (correlated) groups
Independent Groups Design Example 1
if there were any differences in age of
onset of paranoid schizophrenia,
simple schizophrenia, and catatonic
schizophrenia. The psychologist did a
chart review and recorded the age of
diagnosis for random samples of
patients with the above diagnoses.
Introduction to ANOVA
 One-way ANOVA = 1 IV
 Two-way ANOVA = 2 IVs
 MANOVA = More than one DV
 Testing whether groups means are
equal, but uses the variance…