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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:13:26 GMT
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- From: Ronan M Conroy <RCONROY@IRLEARN.UCD.IE>
- Subject: Re: Interactions
- In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:05:40 EST from <FOLGER@WATSON>
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- Davis Foulger is adamant, in his example about seatbelts and airbags,
- that we would want to examine the effects of each factor
- separately even if their interaction was significant, because
- some people have only seatbelts and others only airbags.
- But these effects are NOT the main effects of an anova.
- What you find out if the interaction is significant is that
- you cannot talk about the effect of seatbelts or of airbags
- ^per se^. The effect of each depends on the presence or absence
- of the other. So if you have no safety device, installing a
- seatbelt will have a different effect to installing it if you
- already have an airbag. His example highlights the problem that
- expressing the hypothesis tested by the main effects where
- there's a significant interaction rarely comes up with a
- meaningful statement.
-
- Ronan Conroy EMAIL RCONROY@IRLEARN.UCD.IE
- Lecturer in biostatistics Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
- and computing and stuff Mercer Building, Dublin 2.
- (353)-(1)-780200 [fax:780934]
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