An Advanced Analysis of Variance Procedure in Which the Effects

question 10

Multiple Choice

An advanced analysis of variance procedure in which the effects of one or more metric-scaled extraneous variables are removed from the dependent variable before conducting the ANOVA is called ________.

• A)analysis of covariance (ANCOVA)
• B)one-way analysis of variance
• C)n-way analysis of variance
• D)decomposition of the total variation

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