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UNDERSTANDING THE REPEATED-MEASURES ANOVA REPEATED MEASURES ANOVA – Analysis of Variance in which subjects are measured more than once to determine whether statistically significant change has occurred, for example, from the pretest to the posttest. (Vogt, 1999) • REPEATED MEASURES (ANOVA) – An ANOVA in which subjects are measured two or more times and the total variation is partitioned into three components: (1) variation among individuals; (2) variation among test occasions; and (3) residual variation (Hinkle, Wiersma, & Jurs, 2003). REPEATED-MEASURES DESIGN – A research design in which subjects are measured two or more times on the dependent variable. Rather than using different subjects for each level of treatment, the subjects are given more than one treatment and are measured after each. This means that each subject will be its own control. This research design goes by several different names, including within-subjects ANOVA, treatments-by-subjects ANOVA, randomized-blocks ANOVA, one-way repeated-measures ANOVA and correlated groups design. (Vogt, 1999) SPHERICITY ASSUMPTION – A statistical assumption important for repeated-measures ANOVAs. When it is violated, F values will be positively biased. Researchers adjust for this bias by raising the critical value of F needed to attain statistical significance. Mauchley’s test for sphericity is the most common way to see whether the assumption has been met. (Vogt, 1999) RESIDUAL VARIATION – Variation not due to either individuals or test occasions in repeated measures ANOVA (Hinkle, Wiersma, & Jurs, 2003). ANOVA: SIMPLE REPEATED MEASURES designs involve measuring an individual two or more times on the dependent variable. For example, a researcher may test the same sample of individuals under different conditions or at different times. These people’s scores comprise dependent samples. For example, learning experiments often involve measuring the same people’s performance solving a problem under different conditions. Such a situation is analogous to, and an extension of, the design in which the dependent-samples t test was applied. With the one-way repeated-measures designs, each subject or case in a study is exposed to all levels of a qualitative variable and measured on a quantitative variable during each exposure. The qualitative variable is referred to as a repeated-measures factor or a within-subjects factor. The quantitative variable is called the dependent variable. In repeated-measures analysis (also called a within-subjects analysis); scores for the same individual are dependent, whereas the scores for different individuals are independent. Accordingly, the partitioning of the variation in ANOVA needs to be adjusted so that appropriate F ratios can be computed. The total sums of squares (SST) is partitioned into three components: (1) the variation among individuals (SSI); (2) the variation among test occasions (SSO); and (3) the remaining variation, which is called the residual variation (SSRes). The mean squares for these sources of variation are computed, as before, by dividing the sums of squares by their appropriate degrees of freedom. The mean square for the residual variation (MSRes = SSRes/dfRes) is used as the error term (the denominator of the F ratio) for testing the effect of test occasion, which is the effect of primary interest. It must be noted that there is no appropriate error term for testing the effect of differences among the individuals.RM ANOVA Page 2 We seldom test the effect due to individuals in the repeated-measures design. The test occasions are the primary focus of this design. We actually have very little to gain be testing the individual effect. The main reason for obtaining the individual effect (SSI) in the first place is to absorb the correlations between treatments and thereby remove individual differences from the error term (SSerror) producing a smaller MSRes. A test on the individual effect, if it were significant, would merely indicate that people are different – hardly a momentous finding. Additionally, most statisticians agree that the residual error (MSRes) would be an incorrect denominator in calculating an F ratio for the individual effect, and as such is typically not conducted. To conduct a repeated-measures ANOVA in SPSS, we do not specify the repeated-measures factor and the dependent variable in the SPSS data file. Instead, the SPSS data file contains several quantitative variables. The number of quantitative variables is equal to the number of levels of the within-subjects factor. The scores on any one of these quantitative variables are the scores on the dependent variable for a single level of the within-subjects factor. Although we do not define the within-subjects factor in the SPSS data file, we specify it in the dialog box for the General Linear Model Repeated-Measures procedure. To define the factor, we give a name to the within-subjects factor, specify the number of levels of this factor, and indicate the quantitative variables in the data set associated with the levels of the within-subjects factor. UNDERSTANDING ONE-WAY REPEATED-MEASURES ANOVA In many studies using the one-way repeated-measures design, the levels of a within-subject factor represent multiple observations on a scale over time or under different conditions. However, for some studies, levels of a within-subjects factor may represent scores from different scales, and the focus may be on evaluating differences in means among these scales. In such a setting the scales must be commensurable for the ANOVA significance tests to be meaningful. That is, the scales must measure individuals on the same metric, and the difference scores between scales must be interpretable. In some studies, individuals are matched on one or more variables so that individuals within a set are similar on a matching variable(s), while individuals not in the same set are dissimilar. The number of individuals within a set is equal to the number of levels of a factor. The individuals within a set are then observed under various levels of this factor. The matching process for these designs is likely to produce correlated responses on the dependent variable like


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