Concerta Guidance: S×F vari­­ance test [Regulatives / Guidelines]

posted by ElMaestro  – Denmark, 2014-12-07 19:08 (3427 d 02:24 ago) – Posting: # 14003
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Hi Angus,

❝ IF the variance appears to be negative then that that would mean that the corresponding standard deviation is an imaginary number?


It's an anomaly. A little bit like when type III Sums of Squares for an anova add to a number larger than the total variation. You know that theory says it really can't be like that but it just appears so for purely technical reasons. But at the end of the day you still know the total variation is not the sum of the factors you just computed. You still report them, though. We live with the fact that we cannot account for everything so it isn't imaginary when we get such results but in some sense they just don't make much sense. I have not ever come across a negative SxF term, I think. Others?

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ElMaestro
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