IS SEEING REALLY BELIEVING?

ONE – WAY ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE

THREE OR MORE
POPULATIONS,
ONE – WAY ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE
 EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE COMPARING THREE OR
MORE MEANS IN THIS USE OF THE F TEST, VARIANCES ARE
USED IN THE TEST INSTEAD OF MEANS.
 Estimates of the Population
Variance using the F Test

Between – group variance Within – group variance

Computing the variance using ALL

Computing the variance of the
the data & is not affected by the
means
differences in the means.
 MEANS

Significant difference No significant difference

The between –
The between – group variance
group variance F test value > 1. F test value ≈1.
estimate will be
estimate will be The null approximately The null
much larger than hypothesis will be equal to the within hypothesis will
the within – group rejected. – group variance
variance estimate
not be rejected.
estimate
Recall:

𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑎 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑆𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑉𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒

𝑛 ΣΧ 2 − ΣΧ 2
𝑠2 =
𝑛 𝑛−1