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Course Notes - Department of Mathematics and Statistics

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Since zero is excluded, <strong>and</strong> the interval is entirely positive, there isevidence treatment 4 has a higher mean than treatment 3.9.2.3 Multiple ComparisonsMULTIPLE COMPARISONS• With a 95 % C.I. for the difference between one pair <strong>of</strong> meansthere is a 5% chance <strong>of</strong> a type I error (incorrectly conclude thereis a significant difference)• With multiple comparisons these errors accumulate (up to ∼ 40%)• Statistical s<strong>of</strong>tware uses wider confidence intervals to reduce theoverall error to 5%9.3 ANOVA AssumptionsANOVA ASSUMPTIONSResiduals should be:1. Normally distributed (check normal probability plot).2. R<strong>and</strong>omly distributed about 0 (no pattern in residual plot).3. Similar in variation within each <strong>of</strong> the samples chosen (ratio <strong>of</strong>largest sd to smallest sd must be < 2).178

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