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An Introduction to Repeated Measures Designs

May 23rd, 2024 by

There are many designs that could be considered Repeated Measures design, and they all have one key feature: you measure the outcome variableStage 2 for each subject on several occasions, treatments, or locations.

Understanding this design is important for avoiding analysis mistakes. For example, you can’t treat multiple observations on the same subject as independent observations.

Example

Suppose that you recruit 10 subjects (more…)


An Example of Specifying Within-Subjects Factors in Repeated Measures

September 19th, 2022 by

Some repeated measures designs make it quite challenging to  specify within-subjects factors. Especially difficult is when the design contains two “levels” of repeat, but your interest is in testing just one.

Let’s look at a great example of what this looks like and how to deal with it in this question from a reader :

The Design:

I want to do a GLM (repeated measures ANOVA) with the valence of some actions of my test-subjects (valence = desirability of actions) as a within-subject factor. My subjects have to rate a number of actions/behaviours in a pre-set list of 20 actions from ‘very likely to do’ to ‘will never do this’ on a scale from 1 to 7, and some of these actions are desirable (e.g. help a blind man crossing the street) and therefore have a positive valence (in psychology) and some others are non-desirable (e.g. play loud music at night) and therefore have negative valence in psychology.

My question is how I can use valence as a within-subjects factor in GLM. Is there a way to tell SPSS some actions have positive valence and others have negative valence ? I assume assigning labels to the actions will not do it, as SPSS does not make analyses based on labels …
Please help. Thank you.

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Six Differences Between Repeated Measures ANOVA and Linear Mixed Models

January 22nd, 2018 by

As mixed models are becoming more widespread, there is a lot of confusion about when to use these more flexible but complicated models and when to use the much simpler and easier-to-understand repeated measures ANOVA.

One thing that makes the decision harder is sometimes the results are exactly the same from the two models and sometimes the results are (more…)


When Does Repeated Measures ANOVA not work for Repeated Measures Data?

September 8th, 2014 by

Repeated measures ANOVA is the approach most of us learned in stats classes for repeated measures and longitudinal data. It works very well in certain designs.

But it’s limited in what it can do. Sometimes trying to fit a data set into a repeated measures ANOVA requires too much data gymnastics. (more…)


Five Advantages of Running Repeated Measures ANOVA as a Mixed Model

May 13th, 2009 by

There are two ways to run a repeated measures analysis.The traditional way is to treat it as a multivariate test–each response is considered a separate variable.The other way is to it as a mixed model.While the multivariate approach is easy to run and quite intuitive, there are a number of advantages to running a repeated measures analysis as a mixed model.

First I will explain the difference between the approaches, then briefly describe some of the advantages of using the mixed models approach. (more…)