dode74 wrote:The "yes/no" is inherent within the part of my statement which you quoted. The "satisfying the conditions" is inherent in the rest of the statement, which you did not quote.
Let me walk you through this again since you obviously didn't understand when
I introduced
you to the concept of ANOVA on cyanide's forums. If you run an ANOVA on a set of data then ANOVA gives you a YES OR NO ANSWER FOR THE ENTIRE SET, as in, you say "are any of these significantly different than any others within this set" and it goes "yes" like some sort of cryptic oracle.
It does not identify which of that group is significantly different from another. To identify specific outliers you perform different tests that require exponentially larger numbers of calculations and alpha level corrections based on the size of the original set.
That's why I laugh at this kind of thread... plasmoid isn't really taking what you say into consideration which is good, because
you don't really know what you're talking about, so you're giving him advice he couldn't possibly put into use even if he were inclined to, which, to date, he hasn't. It's like a comedy routine: people who know nothing about a topic who take turn looking things up on wikipedia and parroting it to one another like it was an academic discussion.
But hey, carry on.. I love a good game of google-based chinese whispers!