Re: Analysis of covariance

2001-12-19 Thread Elliot Cramer
Paul R. Swank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Some years ago I did a simulation on the pretest-posttest control group : design lokking at three methods of analysis, ANCOVA, repeated measures : ANOVA, and treatment by block factorial ANOVA (blocking on the pretest using : a median split). I found that

Re: Analysis of covariance

2001-12-19 Thread Elliot Cramer
Bruce Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Paul's post reminded me of something I read in Keppel's Design and : Analysis. Here's an excerpt from my notes on ANCOVA: : the analysis of covariance is more precise with correlations greater than : .6. Since we rarely obtain correlations

RE: Analysis of covariance

2001-10-02 Thread Bruce Weaver
and Analysis. Here's an excerpt from my notes on ANCOVA: Keppel (1982, p. 512) says: If the choice is between blocking and the analysis of covariance, Feldt (1958) has shown that blocking is more precise when the correlation between the covariate and the dependent variable is less than .4, while

Re: Analysis of covariance

2001-09-27 Thread jim clark
Hi On 26 Sep 2001, Burke Johnson wrote: R Pretest Treatment Posttest R PretestControl Posttest In the social sciences (e.g., see Pedhazur's popular regression text), the most popular analysis seems to be to run a GLM (this version is often called an ANCOVA), where Y is the

RE: Analysis of covariance

2001-09-27 Thread Paul R. Swank
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Analysis of covariance Hi On 26 Sep 2001, Burke Johnson wrote: R Pretest Treatment Posttest R PretestControl Posttest In the social sciences (e.g., see Pedhazur's popular regression text), the most popular analysis seems to be to run a GLM

Re: Analysis of covariance

2001-09-27 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
I would have to respectfully disagree with Dennis' comment also. Having the pre values twice in the model does not hurt or change anything in interpreting the treatment effect. BUT I do not like this approach. It makes the results more difficult to interpret when you do have a variable in both

Analysis of covariance

2001-09-26 Thread Burke Johnson
From my understanding, there are three popular ways to analyze the following design (let's call it the pretest-posttest control-group design): R Pretest Treatment Posttest R PretestControl Posttest In the social sciences (e.g., see Pedhazur's popular regression text), the most

Re: Analysis of covariance

2001-09-26 Thread Dennis Roberts
At 02:26 PM 9/26/01 -0500, Burke Johnson wrote: From my understanding, there are three popular ways to analyze the following design (let's call it the pretest-posttest control-group design): R Pretest Treatment Posttest R PretestControl Posttest if random assignment has

Analysis of covariance

2001-09-25 Thread Morelli Paolo
HI all, I have to analyse some clinical data. In particular the analysis is a comparison between two groups of the mean change baseline to endpoint of a score. The statistician who planned the analysis used the ANCOVA on the mean change, using as covariate the baseline values of the scores. Do

Re: Analysis of covariance

2001-09-25 Thread Dennis Roberts
At 10:26 AM 9/25/01 +, Morelli Paolo wrote: HI all, I have to analyse some clinical data. In particular the analysis is a comparison between two groups of the mean change baseline to endpoint of a score. The statistician who planned the analysis used the ANCOVA on the mean change, using as

Re: Analysis of covariance

2001-09-25 Thread Dr. John Ambrose
If you are using ANCOVA then the base score is the covariate and the final score the criterion. ANCOVA is generally preferred to ANOVA on gain scores. John Ambrose University of the Virgin Islands St. Thomas VI 00802 At 10:26 AM 9/25/01 +, Morelli Paolo wrote: HI all, I have to analyse

Re: Analysis of covariance

2001-09-25 Thread Radford Neal
Morelli Paolo wrote: I have to analyse some clinical data. In particular the analysis is a comparison between two groups of the mean change baseline to endpoint of a score. The statistician who planned the analysis used the ANCOVA on the mean change, using as covariate the baseline values of the

Re: Analysis of covariance

2001-09-25 Thread Dennis Roberts
At 03:19 PM 9/25/01 +, Radford Neal wrote: Neither the question nor the response are all that clearly phrased, but when I interpret them according to my reading, I don't agree. For instance, if you're measuring pain levels, I don't see anything wrong with measuring pain before treatment,

Re: Analysis of covariance

2001-09-25 Thread Radford Neal
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dennis Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the basic idea is to be able to explain the post score variance in terms of something ELSE ... that is, for example ... we know that some of the variance in pain is due to one's TOLERANCE for PAIN ... thus, if we can remove