Re: st: Test for data grouping

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 06:09 PM 2/16/2006, you wrote:
> I have a variable x with data that belong to three
> groups. I would like to know if the data x in these
> three groups are significantly different from each
> other (mean and variance) and different from x as a
> whole. Which test is the best for this and how to do
> it? I was thinking about Anova, but it is usually for
> several different variables, can it be used for one
> variable by group?
>
> Mark
Sounds like you want a one-way analysis of variance.  Check out -help oneway-


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