RE: [R] explaining curious result of aov

2003-10-21 Thread Ted Harding
On 21-Oct-03 Bill Shipley wrote: > Hello. I have come across a curious result that I cannot explain. > Hopefully, someone can explain this. I am doing a 1-way ANOVA with 6 > groups (example: summary(aov(y~A)) with A having 6 levels). I get an F > of 0.899 with 5 and 15 df (p=0.51). I then do th

Re: [R] explaining curious result of aov

2003-10-21 Thread Peter Dalgaard
"Bill Shipley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello. I have come across a curious result that I cannot explain. > Hopefully, someone can explain this. I am doing a 1-way ANOVA with 6 > groups (example: summary(aov(y~A)) with A having 6 levels). I get an F > of 0.899 with 5 and 15 df (p=0.51). I

Re: [R] explaining curious result of aov

2003-10-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
The ANOVA assumes equal variances in the groups. Suppose groups 5 and 6 had much lower variances than groups 1 to 4, and group 6 had a different mean from the other 5 (which were about equal)? Given how small the groups apperat to be, this could happen. On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Bill Shipley wrote: