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62 4 Checking the assumptionsTotal 47 25.6721Tables of meansVariate: Absolute residualsGrand mean 0.682Type 1 2 3 40.584 0.594 1.259 0.291Standard errors of differences of meansTable Typerep. 12d.f. 33s.e.d. 0.1711Levene tests for stability of varianceTest t-statistic d.f.pr.Small vs. large responses 2.285 12.7030.040Intermediate v.s. small & large responses 1.906 16.7620.074Shapiro-Wilk test for NormalityData variate: ResidualsTest statistic W: 0.9351Probability: 0.011Message: evidence of non-homogeneity of residual variance for Type andHaul.Message: the Shapiro-Wilk test shows evidence of non-Normality.The output shows that the type-3 plankton numbers are more variable than the othertypes. (This is not surprising as many more of this type of plankton have been recordedin the experiment than the other types.)If we repeat the analysis with the log-transformed numbers, there is no evidence thatthe assumptions are broken, and no warnings are given.