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2011 Dec 08
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anova analysis on factors...
...sed on
the hours within a day...
and we wanted to do Anova analysis...
We have two choices:
Please see below:
Why are these two approaches giving very different p-values? And which one
shall I use?
Thanks a lot!
1. treating the hours as double/floating numbers:
anova(lm(hourlydata~as.double(hours_factors)))
Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)
as.double(hours_factors) 1 0.0002 0.00019876 1.3425 0.2466
Residuals 14868 2.2013 0.00014806
2. treating the hours as factors:
anova(lm(hourlydata~hours_factors))
Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)
hours_factors 9 0.00077 8.5979e-05 0.5806 0.8142
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