Chapter 13: Inferential Statistics and Distributions
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ANOVA(
ANOVA(
(one-way analysis of variance; item
H
) computes a one-way analysis of variance for
comparing the means of two to 20 populations. The
ANOVA
procedure for comparing these means
involves analysis of the variation in the sample data. The null hypothesis H
0
:
m
1
=
m
2
=
...
=
m
k
is
tested against the alternative H
a
: not all
m
1
...
m
k
are equal.
ANOVA(
list1
,
list2
[
,
...
,
list20
]
)
In the example:
L1={7 4 6 6 5}
L2={6 5 5 8 7}
L3={4 7 6 7 6}
Note:
SS
is sum of squares and
MS
is mean square.
Input:
Calculated
results: