Herman Rubin wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Jerry Dallal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ...............
>
> >> As an example, there was an article in a recent issue of an APA journal
> >> where the researchers randomly assigned participants to one of six
> >> conditions in a 2x3 factorial design. The N wouldn't allow equal cell
> >> sizes, and the reported df exceeded N. Yet the article said the
> >> researchers ran a two-way fixed-effects ANOVA.
>
> >The imbalance could be due to dropouts or spoiled/invalid data.
> >While the reported df shouldn't exceed the sample size, I don't see
> >anything in what you've reported here that would preclude a two way
> >fixed effects ANOVA.
>
> The ANOVA MODEL is not affected by this. The analysis is.
Yes, but it could still be the analysis of an unbalanced, two-way,
fixed-effects ANOVA. It would be nice to have the reference.
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