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- Title
Non-normal Data in Repeated Measures ANOVA: Impact on Type I Error and Power.
- Authors
Blanca, María J.; Arnau, Jaume; Javier García-Castro, F.; Alarcón, Rafael; Bono, Roser
- Abstract
Background: Repeated measures designs are commonly used in health and social sciences research. Although there are other, more advanced, statistical analyses, the F-statistic of repeated measures analysis of variance (RM-ANOVA) remains the most widely used procedure for analyzing differences in means. The impact of the violation of normality has been extensively studied for between-subjects ANOVA, but this is not the case for RM-ANOVA. Therefore, studies that extensively and systematically analyze the robustness of RM-ANOVA under the violation of normality are needed. This paper reports the results of two simulation studies aimed at analyzing the Type I error and power of RM-ANOVA when the normality assumption is violated but sphericity is fulfilled. Method: Study 1 considered 20 distributions, both known and unknown, and we manipulated the number of repeated measures (3, 4, 6, and 8) and sample size (from 10 to 300). Study 2 involved unequal distributions in each repeated measure. The distributions analyzed represent slight, moderate, and severe deviation from normality. Results: Overall, the results show that the Type I error and power of the F-statistic are not altered by the violation of normality. Conclusions: RM-ANOVA is generally robust to non-normality when the sphericity assumption is met.
- Subjects
ANALYSIS of variance; FALSE positive error; REPEATED measures design; STATISTICAL reliability; COMPUTER software; PUBLIC health research; STATISTICS; ROBUST statistics; SAMPLE size (Statistics)
- Publication
Psicothema, 2023, Vol 35, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
0214-9915
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7334/psicothema2022.292