If We Ran Box's Test Prior to Conducting a MANOVA

question 20

Multiple Choice

If we ran Box's test prior to conducting a MANOVA and obtained a value with an associated p-value less than .05, what would this tell us?

• A)That the residuals are not independent.
• B)That there are multivariate outliers present.
• C)That the population variance-covariance matrices of the different groups in the analysis are equal.
• D)That the assumption of homogeneity of variance-covariance matrices has been violated.

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