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Re: Testing the significance of difference in set means at different times
Posted:
Nov 7, 2012 5:06 AM
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On Nov 6, 8:45 pm, Stuart.Pal...@deakin.edu.au wrote:
> On Friday, 2 November 2012 19:30:02 UTC+11, Ray Koopman wrote:
>> On Nov 1, 3:10 pm, Stuart.Pal...@deakin.edu.au wrote:
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>>> [...]
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>>> Sets A and B are cross-sectional (representative) samples of two different populations. The members of the sets at time 1 and 2 are different, though still representative. The principal measure of interest is the mean value (of a rating given by) the respective sets.
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>>> I have used one-way ANOVA to explore the significance of the difference in mean score between A1 and A2, B1 and B2, A1 and B1 (ie, [Ma1-Mb1]), and, A2 and B2 (ie, [Ma2-Mb2]).
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>>> My interest/question was about testing the significance of the 'difference of the differences' (Ma1-Mb1)-(Ma2-Mb2).
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>>> I had considered a two-way ANOVA using all of the data and looking at the significance of interaction term, but was unsure. I will look at this.
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>>> Thanks again.
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>> If you have the following:
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>> Sample Sizes: Na1 Nb1 Na2 Nb2
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>> Means: Ma1 Mb1 Ma2 Mb2
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>> Variances: Va1 Vb1 Va2 Vb2
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>> then calculate
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>> (Ma1 - Mb1) - (Ma2 - Mb2)
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>> z = -------------------------------------------,
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>> sqrt(Va1/Na1 + Vb1/Nb1 + Va2/Na2 + Vb2/Nb2)
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>> and refer it to the standard normal distribution in the usual way.
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>> (Actually, what you have is not strictly a z, but an approximate t
>> whose degrees of freedom are at least in the hundreds, and possibly
>> in the thousands, so there is little lost by treating it as a z.)
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> Hi Ray,
> Sorry to Pester.
>
> If I understand correctly, this is essentially Welch's t-test
> with the composite variance extended for more than two groups.
>
> Do you have a reference for this approach?
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> Regards, Stuart Palmer.
Research Design and Statistical Analysis
Jerome L. Myers and Arnold D. Well
1st ed (HarperCollins, 1991): sec 6.8, p 187
2nd ed (Erlbaum, 2003): sec 9.3.2, pp 239-241
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