11.11: On the Relationship Between ANOVA and the Student t Test
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There’s one last thing I want to point out before finishing. It’s something that a lot of people find kind of surprising, but it’s worth knowing about: an ANOVA with two groups is identical to the Student t-test. No, really. It’s not just that they are similar, but they are actually equivalent in every meaningful way. I won’t try to prove that this is always true, but I will show you a single concrete demonstration. Suppose that, instead of running an ANOVA on our mood.gain ~ drug model, let’s instead do it using therapy as the predictor. If we run this ANOVA, here’s what we get:
summary( aov( mood.gain ~ therapy, data = clin.trial ))## Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)
## therapy 1 0.467 0.4672 1.708 0.21
## Residuals 16 4.378 0.2736Overall, it looks like there’s no significant effect here at all but, as we’ll see in Chapter @ref(anova2 this is actually a misleading answer! In any case, it’s irrelevant to our current goals: our interest here is in the F-statistic, which is F(1,16)=1.71, and the p-value, which is .21. Since we only have two groups, I didn’t actually need to resort to an ANOVA, I could have just decided to run a Student t-test. So let’s see what happens when I do that:
t.test( mood.gain ~ therapy, data = clin.trial, var.equal = TRUE )##
## Two Sample t-test
##
## data: mood.gain by therapy
## t = -1.3068, df = 16, p-value = 0.2098
## alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0
## 95 percent confidence interval:
## -0.8449518 0.2005073
## sample estimates:
## mean in group no.therapy mean in group CBT
## 0.7222222 1.0444444Curiously, the p-values are identical: once again we obtain a value of p=.21. But what about the test statistic? Having run a t-test instead of an ANOVA, we get a somewhat different answer, namely t(16)=−1.3068. However, there is a fairly straightforward relationship here. If we square the t-statistic
1.3068 ^ 2## [1] 1.707726we get the F-statistic from before.