In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jerry Dallal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> As an example, there was an article in a recent issue of an APA journal
>> where the researchers randomly assigned participants to one of six
>> conditions in a 2x3 factorial design. The N wouldn't allow equal cell
>> sizes, and the reported df exceeded N. Yet the article said the
>> researchers ran a two-way fixed-effects ANOVA.
>The imbalance could be due to dropouts or spoiled/invalid data.
>While the reported df shouldn't exceed the sample size, I don't see
>anything in what you've reported here that would preclude a two way
>fixed effects ANOVA.
The ANOVA MODEL is not affected by this. The analysis is.
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