InstructionsforRunningaOneWayRepeatedMeasuresANOVAUsingSPSS

Example:Imaginethataresearcherwasinterestedintheeffectofsleepdeprivationonmotorskills
performance.Fiveparticipantsweretestedonamotorskillstaskafter24hoursofsleepdeprivation,tested
againafter36hours,andtestedoncemoreafter48hours.TheDVisthenumberoferrorsmadeonthemotor
skillstask.

Thedataforthisexampleappearbelow.Notehowthesedataareentereddifferentlyfromthewaydataare
enteredforaonewaybetweensubjectsANOVA.Intherepeatedmeasurescase,eachleveloftheIVis
representedasaseparatecolumn.

RunaonewayrepeatedmeasuresANOVAinSPSSbygoingundertheAnalyzemenutoGeneralLinear
ModeltoRepeatedMeasuresYouwillgetthefollowingwindow:

Asnotedabove,inyourdatawindow,thereisnotonesinglecolumninwhichyourDVcanbefound,but
rather,threecolumns(neutral,pleasant,aversive).Thus,youwillneedtotellSPSSwhatthenameofyour
withinsubjectsvariable(factor)is.Below,seehowIhavenamedthisfactorhoursandnotedthatithad3
levels:

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Next,I
clickedon
Add:

andthenDefinetodefinemywithinsubjectsvariable:

SimplyclickonthenameoftheleveloftheIVintheleftcolumn,thenclickonthearrow,anditwillbump
intotherighthandbox.DothisforallthreelevelsoftheIV(noticethatIhavedoneitonlyforthefirstoneso
far).ThenclickOK.
Next,clickonOptions(bottomrighthandcornerofthescreen)soyoucanaskSPSSfordescriptive
statistics(meansandSDsforeachcondition):

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ClickonthefactorhoursandthenclickthearrowtoplaceitintheDisplayMeansfor:box.Thenclickon
theboxbelowlabeledDescriptivestatistics,asIhavedone.ThenclickContinue.Youshouldnowget
bumpedtotheoutputwindow,whereyoucanexamineyourfindings(seeotherhandoutforhowtointerpret
SPSSoutputforarepeatedmeasuresANOVA).SPSSprintsalotofoutputfortherepeatedmeasures
ANOVA,andyoucanignoremuchofit.NotethatyouwillbeusingtheFvaluefromtheTestsofWithin
SubjectsEffectsbox(NOTtheMultivariateTestsbox).Fortheposthoctestsofmeans,youcandooneof
twothings:(1)calculatetheTukeyHSDtestbyhandusingthemeansgiven(SPSSdoesnothavetheoptionof
aTukeytestforrepeatedmeasuresANOVA),or(2)conductaseriesofcorrelatedgroupsttests,oneforeach
pairwisecomparisonyouwishtomake.YouwouldthenuseamodifiedBonferroniprocedure(seepp.3956
ofyourtextbook)tocontrolTypeIerrorrates.
Inthisexample,youwouldconductthreecorrelatedgroupsttests(Analyze,CompareMeans,PairedSamples
ttest):
1.comparing24hrsto36hrs
2.comparing24hrsto48hrs
3.comparing36hrsto48hrs
Whenyougettheoutputfromthesettests,placethecomparisonsinorderfromthehighesttolowesttvalue
(inabsolutevalueterms),andperformthemodifiedBonferroniprocedureasfollows:
Nullhyp.tested

Absolutevalueoft

pvalue

Criticalalpha

Nullhyp.rejected?

24=48
36=48
24=36

5.59
2.98
1.58

.005
.041
.189

.05/3=.017
.05/2=.025
.05/1=.050

Yes
No
No

Iftheobservedpvalueissmallerthanthecriticalalpha,thenyoucanrejectthenullhypothesis.Thus,it
appearsthatmotorskillsperformanceissignificantlyworseafter48hoursofsleepdeprivationthanafter24
hoursofsleepdeprivation,butthatmotorskillsafter36hoursofsleepdeprivationisnotsignificantlydifferent
frommotorskillsaftereither24or48hoursofsleepdeprivation.

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