3. INTRODUCTION
ANOVA stands for Analysis of Variance.
It was introduced by Sir R.A Fisher in 1920.
It is a statistical method used to analyse the differences between the means
of two or more samples or treatments.
ANOVA is used to test the differences among different groups of data for
homogeneity.
The basic principle of ANOVA is to test for differences among the populations
by examining amount of variation within each of these samples relative to
amount of variation between the samples.
ANOVA is an extension of T test as T-test is not suitable to test for significance
of differences among more than two sample means
4. However, conducting multiple t-tests can lead to severe inflation of the Type I
error rate.
ANOVA can be used to test differences among several means for significance
without increasing the Type I error rate.
5. Assumptions in ANOVA
Population distribution is normal
Samples are random and independent
Homogeneity of sample variance
6. ANOVA TECHNIQUES
Two types:-
One-way ANOVA
Two-way ANOVA
One-way ANOVA can only be used when investigating a single factor and a
single dependent variable.
8. Basics
It tests the null hypothesis
H₀:There is no significant difference between the means of all groups.(all
groups are same)
H₀=μ₁=,μ₂=,μ₃=….=μĸ
Where μ=group mean ,K=no. of group
ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS
HΑ:There are at least two groups means that are statistically significantly
different from each other.
HA:μ₁≠μ₂≠μ₃≠…≠μκ