Thursday, May 29, 2014

Effect Size For Single-Factor ANOVA

This is one of the following sixteen articles on Single-Factor ANOVA in Excel

Overview of Single-Factor ANOVA

Single-Factor ANOVA in 5 Steps in Excel 2010 and Excel 2013

Shapiro-Wilk Normality Test in Excel For Each Single-Factor ANOVA Sample Group

Kruskal-Wallis Test Alternative For Single Factor ANOVA in 7 Steps in Excel 2010 and Excel 2013

Levene’s and Brown-Forsythe Tests in Excel For Single-Factor ANOVA Sample Group Variance Comparison

Single-Factor ANOVA - All Excel Calculations

Overview of Post-Hoc Testing For Single-Factor ANOVA

Tukey-Kramer Post-Hoc Test in Excel For Single-Factor ANOVA

Games-Howell Post-Hoc Test in Excel For Single-Factor ANOVA

Overview of Effect Size For Single-Factor ANOVA

ANOVA Effect Size Calculation Eta Squared in Excel 2010 and Excel 2013

ANOVA Effect Size Calculation Psi – RMSSE – in Excel 2010 and Excel 2013

ANOVA Effect Size Calculation Omega Squared in Excel 2010 and Excel 2013

Power of Single-Factor ANOVA Test Using Free Utility G*Power

Welch’s ANOVA Test in 8 Steps in Excel Substitute For Single-Factor ANOVA When Sample Variances Are Not Similar

Brown-Forsythe F-Test in 4 Steps in Excel Substitute For Single-Factor ANOVA When Sample Variances Are Not Similar

 

Overview of Effect Size

For Single-Factor ANOVA

Effect size is a way of describing how effectively the method of data grouping allows those groups to be differentiated. A simple example of a grouping method that would create easily differentiated groups versus one that does not is the following.

Imagine a large random sample of height measurements of adults of the same age from a single country. If those heights were grouped according to gender, the groups would be easy to differentiate because the mean male height would be significantly different than the mean female height. If those heights were instead grouped according to the region where each person lived, the groups would be much harder to differentiate because there would not be significant difference between the means and variances of heights from different regions.

Because the various measures of effect size indicate how effectively the grouping method makes the groups easy to differentiate from each other, the magnitude of effect size tells how large of a sample must be taken to achieve statistical significance. A small effect can become significant if a larger enough sample is taken. A large effect might not achieve statistical significance if the sample size is too small.

 

The Three Most Common Measures

of Effect Size

The three most common measures of effect size of single-factor ANOVA are the following:

η2 – eta squared

(Greek letter “eta” rhymes with “beta”)

ψ – psi or RMSSE

Sometimes denoted as d because it is derived directly from Cohen’s d. This is also referred to as the RMSSE, the root-mean-square-standard-effect.

ώ2 – omega squared

The first two measures, eta squared and RMSSE, are based upon Cohen’s d. The third measure, omega squared, is based upon r2, the coefficient of determination, used in regression analysis.

Effect size will be calculated for this example’s data using each of the three effect size measures in the blog articles following this one.

 

Eta Square (η2)

Eta square quantifies the percentage of variance in the dependent variable (the variable that is measured and placed into groups) that is explained by the independent variable (the method of grouping). If eta squared = 0.35, then 35 percent of the variance associated with the dependent variable is attributed to the independent variable (the method of grouping).

Eta square provides an overestimate (a positively-biased estimate) of the explained variance of the population from which the sample was drawn because eta squared estimates only the effect size on the sample. The effect size on the sample will be larger than the effect size on the population. This bias grows smaller is the sample size grows larger.

Eta square is affected by the number and size of the other effects.

η2 = SSBetween_Groups / SSTotal These two terms are part of the ANOVA calculations found in the Single-factor ANOVA output.

Magnitudes of eta-squared are generally classified exactly as magnitudes of r2 (the coefficient of determination) are as follows: = 0.01 is considered a small effect. = 0.06 is considered a medium effect. = 0.14 is considered a large effect. Small, medium, and large are relative terms. A large effect is easily discernible but a small effect is not.

Partial eta squared (pη2) is the proportion of the total variance attributed to a given factor when ANOVA is performed using more than a single factor as is being done in this section.

Eta squared is sometimes called the nonlinear correlation coefficient because it provides a measure of strength of the curvilinear relationship between the dependent and independent variables. If the relationship is linear, eta squared will have the same value as r squared.

The recommended measure of effect size for Single-Factor ANOVA is omega squared instead of eta squared due the tendency of eta squared to overestimate the percent of population variance associated with the grouping method.

 

Psi (ψ) - RMSSE

RMSSE = Root-Mean-Square-Standard-Effect. Sometimes RMSSE is denoted as d because it is derived directly from Cohen’s d as follows:

Cohen’s d is used to measure size effects when comparing two population variables. The formula for Cohen’s d is as follows:

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Cohen’s d is implemented in the form of Hodge’s measure when estimating the population variances based upon two samples. The formula for Hodge’s measure is the following:

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When applied to omnibus Single-Factor ANOVA, this measure becomes the RMSSE. The formula for RMSSE for Single-Factor (One-way) ANOVA is the following:

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The Grand Mean is the mean of the group means.

RMSSE is often denoted as Cohen’s d for Single Factor ANOVA. The Excel formula to calculate RMSSE is the following:

=SQRT(DEVSQ(array of group means) / ((*k-1)*MSWithin_Groups)

DEVSQ(array) returns the sum of the squares of deviations of sample points in the array from their mean. In this case DEVSQ(array of group means) would return the sum of the square of the deviations of the groups means from the grand mean (the mean of the group means).

Magnitudes of RMSSE are generally classified as follows: = 0.10 is considered a small effect. = 0.25 is considered a medium effect. = 0.40 is considered a large effect. Small, medium, and large are relative terms. A large effect is easily discernible but a small effect is not.

 

Omega Squared (ώ2)

Omega squared is an estimate of the population’s variance that is explained by the treatment (the method of grouping).

Omega squared is less biased (but still slightly biased) than eta square and is always smaller the eta squared because eta squared overestimates the explained variance of the population from which the sample was drawn. Eta squared estimates only the effect size on the sample. The effect size on the sample will be larger than the same effect size on the population.

Magnitudes of omega squared are generally classified as follows: Up to 0.06 is considered a small effect, from 0.06 to 0.14 is considered a medium effect, and above 0.14 is considered a large effect. Small, medium, and large are relative terms. A large effect is easily discernible but a small effect is not.

The relationship between omega squared and r squared is shown as follows:

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The first equation shown above is applicable to regression. The second equation is application to Single-Factor ANOVA.

SSBetween is often referred to as SSTreatment or SSEffect.

MSWithin is often referred to as SSError

so that

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