anova1 within groups degree of freedom ?

Hi,

I am doing an ANOVA with anova1 : anova1(D,X) X is such that there are only two groups, but the number of observations is not the same for these two groups.

How do I know the "within groups" degree of freedom ? I don't know where to read it from the output ... :-(

thank you !

Answer 1

[Wayne King]

 strength = [82 86 79 83 84 85 86 87 74 82  78 75 76 77 79 79 77 78 82 79];
  alloy = {'st','st','st','st','st','st','st','st','al1','al1','al1','al1','al1','al1', 'al2','al2','al2','al2','al2','al2'};
 p = anova1(strength,alloy)

If N is the total number of observations and k is the number of groups, then N-k is the within groups DOF, k-1 is the between, and N-1 is the total. N-1 = (N-k) + (k-1). On the anova1 table these are:

k -1 (Groups)

N-k (Error)

N-1 (Total)

     withingroup = length(strength) - length(unique(alloy))
     betweengroup = length(unique(alloy))-1
     totaldof = length(strength)-1

In the above, you can see that the F statistic value should be:

   Fval = (184.8/2)/(102/17)

[laurie]

ok thanks ! so the within group df is the one that is in the "Error" row, not the Total :-)