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Re: Separate One-Way vs Two-Way Repeated Measures

Posted by Mike on Apr 29, 2015; 5:52pm
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Perhaps I am confused but allow me to enumerate the tests
that I think you might want to do:
 
(1) Time 1: Voice 1 vs Voice 2 (correlated groups t-test
or non parametric test, depending upon distribution of data
and assumptions about populations samples were drawn
from).
 
(2) Time 2: Voice 1 vs Voice 2 vs Voice 3 (repeated
measures ANOVA plus post hoc or nonparametric ANOVA)
 
(3) Time 3: Voice 1 vs Voice 2 vs Voice 3 (same as (2))
 
(4) Time 4: Voice 1 vs Voice 2 vs Voice 3 (same as (2))
 
(5) Time 5: Voice 2 vs Voice 3 (same as (1))
 
(6) Voice 1: Time 1 vs Time 2 vs Time 3 vs Time 4
(one-way repeated measures ANOVA or nonparametric
analog along with appropriate post hoc).
 
(7) Voice 2: Time 1 vs Time 2 vs Time 3 Time 4 vs Time 5 vs Time 6
(one-way repeated-measures ANOVA or nonparametric
analog along with appropriate post hoc).
 
(8) Voice 3: Time 2 vs Time 3 vs Time 4 vs Time 5 (one-way
repeated measures ANOVA or nonparametric analog along
with appropriate post hoc).
 
If you had the full 3 x 6 completely within-subject design,
assuming you have a significant 2-way interaction, you
are essentially asking for simple effects analysis at each level of
voice and at each level of time. Because you do not have a full
design, you have the patchwork of comparisons represented
by (1) - (8) above.  If each test is done at alpha per comparison = .05,
then the alpha you have after doing the 8 test is alpha overall = .34,
or a 34% chance of committing a Type I error (for any ANOVA
that is significant, add the alphas for each post hoc comparisons).
In other words, following this strategy is likely to produce at least
one Type 1 error (i.e., false statistically significant result).
Perhaps I am wrong and someone can suggest an alternative
analysis plan that will keep the Type I error rate down.
 
Sidenote:  if you have not done so, I think it might be a good
idea to graph the means and their standard errors.  Time
would be on the X-axis, the dependent variable on the Y-axis,
and you would have a line for each Voice (3 lines).  At the
very least, this would show whether the lines are parallel or
not. If not, do the line fan out (implying an ordinal interaction)
or crossover (implying a disordinal interaction).  This might
suggest which of the comparison above make sense.
 
HTH.
 
-Mike Palij
New York University
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Subject: Re: Separate One-Way vs Two-Way Repeated Measures

Thank you all for your replies.

I don't know if this comment changes something, but I just want to make a correction to Mike Palik's table:
- Time 6 X Voice 3 condition exists. The other condition that does not exist is Time 1 X Voice 3.

In my case, these missing conditions are design related:
- Time 1 X Voice 3 would be a step below a baseline condition and would not make sense in the context of my experiment;
- Time 5 X Voice 1 and Time 6 X Voice 1 were extremely difficult (seen in pilot studies) and therefore we wanted to avoid to frustrate/exhaust the participants.

For what I have been reading about mixed effects model (it is the first time I'm reading about it), it seemed a good fit: using time and voice as fixed effects (should also consider time*voice?) and the participant as random effect. But I believe I am missing something here...
Moreover, both normality and sphericity are violated in most cases. Does this also influence mixed effects model as it does with ANOVA tests (requiring non-parametric testing)?

Would it be statistically invalid/wrong to perform, for example, Friedman Tests for each Time condition (to compare the 3 voice conditions in that Time condition)?

Thank you all!


2015-04-29 17:04 GMT+01:00 Dates, Brian <[hidden email]>:

Mike,

 

Thanks for this. Having done a lot of work on missing data, I would not recommend imputing data in this instance. First of all, there are only 30 subjects, and so the mechanism of missingness is probably not random. Even then, however, of three possible cells at Time 6 there is only one voice category. I don’t believe that is enough to use any kind of maximum likelihood model, e.g., MI or EM. I would also be hesitant to try correlational approaches as well, although Joost van Ginkel has been very active on this listserve, providing lots of imputation syntax. Perhaps he might weigh in.

 

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From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Mike Palij
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 11:51 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Fw: Separate One-Way vs Two-Way Repeated Measures

 

I had sent the message below to Joao off-list but then

thought that it might elicit some additional useful comments

on the SPSSX-L list.

 

-Mike Palij

New York University

 

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Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 9:40 AM

 

Let me rephrase what you say below:

 

(1) You have a 3 by 6 within-subjects design with voice

(3 levels) factorially crossed by time condition (6 levels;

not sure what this variable actually is) which can be

represented by the following table:

 

 

Time Condition

Voice

1

2

3

4

5

6

1

V1T1

V1T2

V1T3

V1T4

 

 

2

V2T1

V2T2

V2T3

V2T4

V2T5

V2T6

3

V3T1

V3T2

V3T3

V3T3

V3T4

 

 

Blank cells indicate combinations of voice and

time condition that you either did not collect

data in (why?) or were structurally blank (i.e.,

the combination of conditions do not exist

even though they appear to the factorial design).

 

(2) You are not interested in the main effects

of either voice or time conditions.

 

(3) You are interested in comparing components

of the 2-way interaction between voice and time.

 

(4) Since traditional repeated measures ANOVA

assumes complete data, you cannot use it to analyze

this design.  One alternative is to change the design

to a 3 (voice) by 4 (time 1-4) but though this simplifies

things, it raises questions about whether it is appropriate

and whether it answers the research questions you

really want answered. However, such a design would

tell you if you have a significant 2-way interaction; if

you do not, analysis of components of the interaction

would need justification.

 

(5) Instead of taking the ANOVA route, you could

specific the analysis you want as planned comparisons

and calculate the appropriate error terms for such

comparisons.  But you would have to think such an

analysis through.  Additional considerations have to do

with whether you sphericity or not -- in which case

what is the nature of your variance-covariance matrix.

 

(6) I could be wrong but I think most statistical consultants

would suggest that you use a multilevel model to analyze

the design above, one reason being that it would allow

you to make use of all of the data (potentially).  There

are people on SPSSX-L who are familiar with multilevel

analysis for these types of designs (though a 2-way

incomplete within-subject design is a little odd, at least

in the present form -- can the empty cells be treated as

"missing at random"?).

 

(7) If you want to take the multilevel route, these is some

literature on incomplete within-subject or incomplete

repeated measures ANOVA (you can do a search on

scholar.google.com for the literature).  One source you

might want to look at is the work by Lesa Hoffman,

for example, see:

 

Hoffman L, Rovine MJ. Multilevel models for experimental

psychologists: Foundations and illustrative examples. Behavior

Research Methods. 2007;39:101–117.

 

This article is on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's UNL)

digital commons and can be accessed here:

 

At the time of the writing of this article, Hoffman was faculty

at UNL but she has apparently changed affiliations and here is

a link to her webpage:

 

You can examine these sources and the literature in working out

what analysis you want to do.  Some on SPSS may be able to

help with SPSS syntax for the analysis (Hoffman provided some

examples of SPSS analysis but they are no longer on the UNL

website though her article provides an address there; it may be

on her new site).

 

(8) Remember that you have a completely within-subject design

but many examples will be "mixed designs" (i.e., have between-subject

and within-subject ind vars; another definition of "mixed design" is

that some variables are "fixed effects" and other are "random effects",

a distinction you will have to make if you go the multilevel analysis

route).

 

HTH.

 

-Mike Palij

New York University

 

 

---- Original Message -----

Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 6:44 AM

Subject: Separate One-Way vs Two-Way Repeated Measures

 

Hello everyone,



I'm struggling with a Within-Subjects analysis and I haven't found the answer to my doubts, so here it goes:

I have two IV (Time and Voice Conditions) and one DV (continuous variable).

Time conditions depend on the Time to Complete the task
Voice conditions refer to different voices used

                                                           Time Condition

                                         1         2          3          4          5         6
                             1          x          x          x          x

Voice Conditions     2          x          x          x          x          x          x

                             3                      x          x          x          x          x

This table shows all combinations Time X Voice that were tested, by all participants (30). For example, Time condition 1 with Voice condition 3 was not executed by any participant.

What I want with this test is to obtain the following comparisons:
- Within each Time Condition, check for differences in Voice conditions
- For each voice condition, check for differences in time condition (in particular, I want to know when does performance start to deteriorate significantly).

My first thoughts were to perform one-way repeated measures ANOVA (or Friedman due to normality violation) within each time condition; and then within each voice condition (Followed by post-hocs).

However, I found that I could analyze these two variables together with the two-way repeated measures ANOVA. I performed this analysis using the General Linear Model -> Repeated Measures menu. Yet, I found the following problems:

- I have a few combinations that don't exist (for example Time 1 X Voice 3); If I use empty values, I get no results for all the analysis... but I have to insert one variable in order to proceed with the analysis. What should I do?
- When checking for normality, almost all TimeXVoice conditions violate the assumption. I read that normality is not that strict in this test, but some of the conditions show Sig results of ,000 and almost all of them are below ,050. Should I go for a non-parametric alternative?

Is it OK to use the one-way version and analyze each of the variables separately or should I do the two-way analysis? How should I overcome the problems referred above? Should I consider a different test?

I hope I have provided enough details.
Thanks in advance,

 

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- PhD Student @ IST / Technical University of Lisbon
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