How To Analyze Data Using ANOVA in SPSS
How To Analyze Data Using ANOVA in SPSS
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Arrange all scores in one column. Clear other columns that are not in use (right-click option).
4. In the first column, indicate the treatment assignments: 1 for sardine head and tail, 2 for
goatfish bone meal, and 3 for milkfish bone meal.
5. Shift to Variable View and specify parameters, such as Name, Decimals, and Measure.
“Name” of Columns should have no special characters and spaces.
Selection of decimals depends on the data. Reflect the maximum number of decimal places used in
your data.
For this example, we use a Likert scale (hedonic rating), which is an ordinal measurement. Other
options are nominal (categories like height, gender, color, etc.) and scale (infinite numbers: negative,
zero, or positive).
7. SPSS will now show you a new window with the results of the One-way ANOVA.
You may select which data you need and copy this to and MS Word document.
8. Make the necessary edits and add discussion to your results.
Oneway
Descriptives
Acceptability of Flavor
Treatment N Mean Std. Deviation Std. Error 95% Confidence Interval for Mean Minimum Maximum
Descriptives show how many treatments there are, number of replicates per treatment, treatment
means, group standard deviation (SD), standard error of the mean (SEM), the confidence intervals, as
well as the minimum and maximum scores given per treatment.
ANOVA
Acceptability of Flavor
Sum of Squares df Mean Square F Sig.
Between Groups 59.467 2 29.733 76.752 .000
Within Groups 45.325 117 .387
Total 104.792 119
Sig. or the p-value is needed to conclude if there is a significant difference in treatment means. Go back
to the question:
Is there a significant difference on the acceptability of the flavor of spread from sardines
(Sardinella fimbriata) head and tail, goatfish (Upeneoides sulphureus) bone meal, and milkfish
(Chanos chanos) bone meal?
Sig > 0.05: no sig diff
Sig < 0.05: sig diff
Since p= 0.00, we reject the Ho and accept the Ha. We can conclude that:
There is a significant difference between the treatments (p<0.05).
Because we have multiple groups to compare, we will need to interpret the results of the post-hoc as
well. DMRT, in this case, will classify homogeneous subsets based on the significance of their
differences.
Post Hoc Tests
Homogeneous Subsets
Acceptability of Flavor
Duncan
Treatment N Subset for alpha = 0.05
1 2 3
1 (Sardines head and tail) 40 6.53
2 (Goatfish bone meal) 40 7.13
3 (Milkfish bone meal) 40 8.23
Sig. 1.000 1.000 1.000
Means for groups in homogeneous subsets are displayed.
a. Uses Harmonic Mean Sample Size = 40.000.
Reflected in the DMRT table are the groupings of the treatments and their respective means. Since a
higher hedonic rating is preferred in this case, we will assign all treatments that fall under Column 3 as
Group a. Groups with lower scores shall be assigned as b and so on. This will give us the following
groupings:
a: Treatment 3 (Milkfish bone meal)
b: Treatment 2 (Goatfish bone meal)
c: Treatment 1 (Sardines head and tail)
You can then discuss further the reasons why and how the treatments (quality and properties of raw
material used) affected the flavor of the product. You could add here the description/remarks of the
panelists.