Phil found a negative sums of squares between. What should he ...

[Brittanyd9008]

Phil found a negative sums of squares between. What should he interpret this to mean?
 
  a. The treatment reduced the scores. c. N is too large.
  b. The treatment is due to chance. d. He made an error in calculating.

Question 2

If calculating sums of squares by hand, the sums of squares _____ is calculated last.
 
  a. treatment c. between
  b. within d. total

[okolip]

Answer to Question 1

D
All sums of squares are positive. If one finds a negative value for a sums of squares, there must be an error somewhere.

Answer to Question 2

B
The sums of squares within groups is found by subtracting the sums of squares between groups from the total sums of squares. There is no treatment sums of squares.

[Brittanyd9008]

Thank you!

[okolip]

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