Analysis of Variance Is the Most Common Inferential Statistical Procedure

question 11

Multiple Choice

Analysis of variance is the most common inferential statistical procedure used to analyze experiments because

• A)it is the only statistical procedure that can test either between-subjects factors or within-subjects factors.
• B)there are several different versions of it,and so it can test for possible treatment effects more accurately than the two-sample tests.
• C)most researchers are more interested in whether there are differences in the variance among the conditions than in whether there are differences in the means.
• D)there are several different versions of it,and so it can be used with many different experimental designs.

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