

If we take a good look at the exact 2-tailed p-values, we see that they're all <. Note that each mean differs from each other mean except for Placebo versus Homeopathic. Mean differences that are “significant” at our chosen α =. It also includes 95% confidence intervals for these differences. The table below shows if the difference between each pair of means is statistically significant. This final question is answered by our post hoc tests that we'll discuss next. Precisely which mean differs from which mean? This may seem to complete our analysis but there's one thing we don't know yet: Generally accepted rules of thumb for eta-squared are thatįor our example, η 2 = 0.39 is a huge effect: our 4 medicines resulted in dramatically different mean depression scores. In SPSS 27 and higher, we find this in the next output table shown below.Įta-squared is an effect size measure: it is a single, standardized number that expresses how different several sample means are (that is, how far they lie apart). What's absent from this table, is eta squared, denoted as η 2. The figure below illustrates how this result should be reported. The significance level indicates that p <. SPSS ANOVA Outputįirst off, the ANOVA table shown below addresses the null hypothesis that all population means are equal. ONEWAY bdi BY medicine /ES=OVERALL /MISSING ANALYSIS /CRITERIA=CILEVEL(0.95) /POSTHOC=TUKEY ALPHA(0.05). *BASIC ANOVA EFFECT SIZE AND POST HOC TESTS. However, this is not needed for our data because our sample sizes are all equal.Ĭompleting these steps results in the syntax below. It is listed under “equal variances assumed”, which refers to the homogeneity assumption. Tukey's HSD (“honestly significant difference”) is the most common post hoc test for ANOVA. If you're on an older version, you can get it fromĪnalyze Compare Means Means (“ANOVA table” under “Options”). Next, let's fill out the dialogs as shown below.Įstimate effect size(.) is only available for SPSS version 27 or higher. It therefore meets all ANOVA assumptions. Note that depression.sav contains 4 medicine samples of n = 25 independent observations. The flowchart below summarizes when/how to check the ANOVA assumptions and what to do if they're violated.

What to do if it isn't, is covered in SPSS ANOVA - Levene’s Test “Significant”. In this case, Levene's test can be used to examine if homogeneity is met. Now, homogeneity is only required for sharply unequal sample sizes.

However, homogeneity is not needed if all sample sizes are roughly equal.

SPSS ANOVA with Post Hoc Tests By Ruben Geert van den Berg under ANOVA
