Re: Brown-Forsythe Issue in ANOVA

Posted by Rich Ulrich on
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/How-data-entry-for-TURF-analysis-tp4635246p4660350.html

Thanks.  I'll try to remember it right, next time.

That's probably why I couldn't find it when searching for
Frederick Lord and canoe.

> Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 06:35:08 -0700

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> Subject: Re: Brown-Forsythe Issue in ANOVA
> To: [hidden email]
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> The version of that quote I know is another George Box classic.
>
> "To make the preliminary test on variances is rather like
> putting to sea in a rowing boat to find out whether
> conditions are sufficiently calm for an ocean liner to
> leave port!"
>
> Box G. E. P. (1953) Non-normality and tests on variances.
> Biometrika 40, 318–35.
>

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Rich Ulrich