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FACTORIAL DESIGNS. Terms for Factorials Types of Factorial Designs Notation for Factorials Types of Effects Looking at Tables of Means Looking at Graphs of Means. Terms for Factorials. level: value of an IV condition: combination of levels of two or more IV’s
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FACTORIAL DESIGNS • Terms for Factorials • Types of Factorial Designs • Notation for Factorials • Types of Effects • Looking at Tables of Means • Looking at Graphs of Means
Terms for Factorials • level: value of an IV • condition: combination of levels of two or more IV’s • factor: another name for IV
Factor A Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 condition Level 1 condition condition Factor B condition condition condition Level 2
Types of Factorial Designs • between subjects • within subjects • mixed
Between Subjects A 1 2 Subjects 1-10 Subjects 21-30 1 B Subjects 11-20 Subjects 31-40 2
Within Subjects A 1 2 Subjects 1-40 Subjects 1-40 1 B Subjects 1-40 Subjects 1-40 2
Mixed (A Between, B Within) A 1 2 Subjects 1-20 Subjects 21-40 1 B Subjects 1-20 Subjects 21-40 2
Notation for Factorials • The number of numbers tells you how many i.v.’s • The numbers tell you how many levels • A factorial with two i.v.’s which each have two levels is a 2 x 2
Notation for Factorials • 2x2 2x3 3x4 • How many i.v.’s? • How many d.v.’s? • How many conditions?
Types of Effects • Main Effect: the overall effect of one IV, averaging over the levels of the other IV • Interaction: the effect of one IV changes depending on the level of the other IV
Drug 1 2 60 mean recovery score 1 40 Therapy 40 2 60 No main effect of therapy No main effect of drug BUT the effect of the therapy depends on which drug is being taken
Why Factorials? • Reduce amount of non-systematic variance • Ability to measure interaction • Main effects can be misleading without considering the interaction
Looking at Means Tables • For main effects: • find marginal means (means of levels) • if marginal means are different, there is a main effect
Looking at Means Tables • For interaction: • find simple effects (effects of one variable for each level of other variable) • If simple effects change, there is an interaction
A 1 2 60 1 40 50 +20 B 60 2 40 50 +20 40 60 main effect of A
A 1 2 60 1 40 B 80 2 40 40 70
A 1 2 30 1 40 B 20 2 50
A 1 3 2 1 B 2 20 20 50 20 20 80
Looking at Graphs of Means • main effects: • visually estimate marginal means • if they are at different heights, there is a main effect
Looking at Graphs of Means • interaction: • parallel lines mean no interaction • non-parallel lines mean an interaction
70 60 50 B2 x 40 d.v. 30 x x B1 20 x 10 0 1 2 A main effect of B
70 B2 60 50 40 B1 d.v. 30 20 10 0 1 2 A
B2 70 60 50 40 d.v. 30 B1 20 10 0 1 2 A
70 60 B2 50 40 d.v. 30 B1 20 10 0 1 2 A
70 60 50 B2 40 d.v. 30 B1 20 10 0 3 1 2 A