IS SEEING REALLY BELIEVING?

ONE – WAY ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE

WHEN AN F TEST IS USED TO TEST A
HYPOTHESIS CONCERNING THE MEANS
OF THREE OR MORE POPULATIONS,
THE TECHNIQUE IS CALLED ANALYSIS
OF VARIANCE (COMMONLY
ABBREVIATED AS ANOVA).
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 the

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

Significant difference No significant difference

The between – group

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