Ashim Kapoor
2017-Dec-31 12:39 UTC
[R] clustering levels using Tukey HSD in a one way anova
Dear all, I am doing a one way between subjects anova in an unbalanced data set. Suppose we have "a" levels of the one factor. I want to merge the not so significantly different levels into the same cluster. Can I do a Tukey Kramer HSD and then use the following algorithm: For i in 2 : "a" For j in 1 : i-1 if mean of level i is not significantly different to the mean of level j,then put i and j in the same cluster. After the first time mean of level i is not different to the mean of level j , just goto the next i , no need to compare with remaining j's. Alternately, I do not do Tukey Kramer HSD. I only run the above algorithm. At each iteration of the inner loop compute the contrast : mean of level i = mean j. At the first match I come out of the inner loop. To control for the (at most) 1+ 2 + ... + (n-1) comparisons we can use bonferroni/scheffe / some other technique. Since this is a statistics query I have posted on stackexchange. I have not received a reply so I am posting my query here. Can some one please answer my query here or on stackexchange? The link to the query on stackexchange is: https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/320930/one-way- anova-clustering-levels-using-tukey-kramer-hsd Best Regards, Ashim [[alternative HTML version deleted]]