数据统计 - MANOVA

• One way MANOVA： one-way multivariate analysis of variance
• used to determine whether there are any differences between independent groups on more than one continuous dependent variable.
• cannot tell you which specific groups were significantly different from each other; it only tells you that at least two groups were different.
• Need to use a post-hoc test to determine which of these groups differ from each other.

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Assumptions

• two or more dependent variables should be measured at the interval or ratio level (i.e., they are continuous).
• independent variable should consist of two or more categorical, independent groups.
• independence of observations.
• An adequate sample size. Although the larger your sample size, the better; f