1 Loading Libraries

library(psych) # for the describe() command
library(ggplot2) # to visualize our results
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library(expss) # for the cross_cases() command
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library(car) # for the leveneTest() command
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library(afex) # to run the ANOVA and plot results
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## Welcome to afex. For support visit: http://afex.singmann.science/
## - Functions for ANOVAs: aov_car(), aov_ez(), and aov_4()
## - Methods for calculating p-values with mixed(): 'S', 'KR', 'LRT', and 'PB'
## - 'afex_aov' and 'mixed' objects can be passed to emmeans() for follow-up tests
## - Get and set global package options with: afex_options()
## - Set sum-to-zero contrasts globally: set_sum_contrasts()
## - For example analyses see: browseVignettes("afex")
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# options(repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org")
# devtools::install_version("estimability","1.4")
# devtools::install_version("emmeans","1.7.0")
library(emmeans) # for posthoc tests

2 Importing Data

# import the dataset you cleaned previously
# this will be the dataset you'll use throughout the rest of the semester
# use ARC data
d <- read.csv(file="Data/eammi2_new_final.csv", header=T)

# for the HW, you may or may not need to use the code below this comment
# check to see if you have a variable called 'X' or 'ResponseId' in your data
names(d)
## [1] "gender"    "age"       "idea"      "swb"       "mindful"   "socmeduse"
# if you do have 'X' or 'ResponseId' (aka your ID variable) then DELETE THE CODE BELOW
# if you don't have those variables, keep the code and run it
d$row_id <- 1:nrow(d)

3 State Your Hypothesis

Note: You can chose to run either a one-way ANOVA (a single IV with more than 3 levels) or a two-way/factorial ANOVA (at least two IVs) for the homework. You will need to specify your hypothesis and customize your code based on the choice you make. I will run both versions of the test here for illustrative purposes.

One-Way: We predict that there will be a significant effect of gender on subjective well-being, as measured by the satisfaction with life scale.

4 Check Your Variables

# you only need to check the variables you're using in the current analysis
# although you checked them previously, it's always a good idea to look them over again and be sure that everything is correct
str(d)
## 'data.frame':    2156 obs. of  7 variables:
##  $ gender   : chr  "f" "m" "m" "f" ...
##  $ age      : chr  "1 between 18 and 25" "1 between 18 and 25" "1 between 18 and 25" "1 between 18 and 25" ...
##  $ idea     : num  3.75 3.88 3.75 3.75 3.5 ...
##  $ swb      : num  4.33 4.17 1.83 5.17 3.67 ...
##  $ mindful  : num  2.4 1.8 2.2 2.2 3.2 ...
##  $ socmeduse: int  47 23 34 35 37 13 37 43 37 29 ...
##  $ row_id   : int  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
# make our categorical variables factors
d$row_id <- as.factor(d$row_id) #we'll actually use our ID variable for this analysis, so make sure it's coded as a factor
d$gender <- as.factor(d$gender)
d$row_id <- as.factor(d$row_id)

# check your categorical variables
table(d$gender)
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##    f    m   nb 
## 1583  542   31
# also use histograms to examine your continuous variable
hist(d$swb)

5 Check Your Assumptions

5.1 ANOVA Assumptions

Assumptions checked below:

  • DV should be normally distributed across levels of the IV
  • All levels of the IVs should have equal number of cases and there should be no empty cells. Cells with low numbers decrease the power of the test (increase change of Type II error)
  • Homogeneity of variance should be assured
  • Outliers should be identified and removed

If you have confirmed everything else…

  • The sampling distribution should be normal. (For a demonstration of what the sampling distribution is, go here.)

5.1.1 Check levels of IVs

# check your categorical variables and make sure they have decent cell sizes
# they should have at least 5 participants in each cell
# but larger numbers are always better
table(d$gender)
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##    f    m   nb 
## 1583  542   31
# you can use the describe() command on an entire dataframe (d) or just on a single variable
describe(d$swb)
##    vars    n mean   sd median trimmed  mad min max range  skew kurtosis   se
## X1    1 2156 4.43 1.33    4.5    4.49 1.48   1   7     6 -0.35    -0.49 0.03
# we'll use the describeBy() command to view skew and kurtosis across our IVs
describeBy(d$swb, group = d$gender)
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##  Descriptive statistics by group 
## group: f
##    vars    n mean   sd median trimmed  mad min max range  skew kurtosis   se
## X1    1 1583 4.43 1.31    4.5    4.49 1.48   1   7     6 -0.38     -0.5 0.03
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## group: m
##    vars   n mean   sd median trimmed  mad min max range  skew kurtosis   se
## X1    1 542 4.48 1.37   4.67    4.52 1.48   1   7     6 -0.31    -0.49 0.06
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## group: nb
##    vars  n mean   sd median trimmed  mad min  max range  skew kurtosis   se
## X1    1 31 3.87 1.26      4    3.93 1.48   1 5.67  4.67 -0.37    -0.93 0.23

5.1.2 Check homogeneity of variance

# use the leveneTest() command from the car package to test homogeneity of variance
# uses the 'formula' setup: formula is y~x1*x2, where y is our DV and x1 is our first IV and x2 is our second IV
leveneTest(swb~gender, data = d)
## Levene's Test for Homogeneity of Variance (center = median)
##         Df F value Pr(>F)
## group    2  0.9872 0.3728
##       2153

5.1.3 Check for outliers using Cook’s distance and Residuals vs Leverage plot

5.1.3.1 Run a Regression

# use the lm() command to run the regression
# formula is y~x1*x2, where y is our DV, x1 is our first IV and x2 is our second IV
reg_model <- lm(swb ~ gender, data = d) #for one-way

5.1.3.2 Check for outliers (One-Way)

# Cook's distance
plot(reg_model, 4)

# Residuals vs Leverage
plot(reg_model, 5)

5.2 Issues with My Data

Our cell sizes are very unbalanced. A small sample size for one of the levels of our variable limits our power and increases our Type II error rate.

6 Run an ANOVA

aov_model <- aov_ez(data = d,
                    id = "row_id",
                    between = c("gender"),
                    dv = "swb",
                    anova_table = list(es = "pes"))
## Contrasts set to contr.sum for the following variables: gender

7 View Output

Effect size cutoffs from Cohen (1988):

  • η2 = 0.01 indicates a small effect
  • η2 = 0.06 indicates a medium effect
  • η2 = 0.14 indicates a large effect
nice(aov_model)
## Anova Table (Type 3 tests)
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## Response: swb
##   Effect      df  MSE      F  pes p.value
## 1 gender 2, 2153 1.76 3.18 * .003    .042
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '+' 0.1 ' ' 1

8 Visualize Results

afex_plot(aov_model, x = "gender")

9 Run Posthoc Tests (One-Way)

Only run posthocs if the test is significant! E.g., only run the posthoc tests on gender if there is a main effect for gender.

emmeans(aov_model, specs="gender", adjust="tukey")
## Note: adjust = "tukey" was changed to "sidak"
## because "tukey" is only appropriate for one set of pairwise comparisons
##  gender emmean     SE   df lower.CL upper.CL
##  f        4.43 0.0333 2153     4.35     4.51
##  m        4.48 0.0569 2153     4.34     4.62
##  nb       3.87 0.2379 2153     3.30     4.43
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## Confidence level used: 0.95 
## Conf-level adjustment: sidak method for 3 estimates
pairs(emmeans(aov_model, specs="gender", adjust="tukey"))
##  contrast estimate     SE   df t.ratio p.value
##  f - m     -0.0494 0.0659 2153  -0.749  0.7341
##  f - nb     0.5647 0.2403 2153   2.350  0.0494
##  m - nb     0.6141 0.2447 2153   2.510  0.0325
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## P value adjustment: tukey method for comparing a family of 3 estimates

10 Write Up Results

10.1 One-Way ANOVA

To test our hypothesis that there would be a significant effect of gender on stress, we used a one-way ANOVA. Our data was unbalanced, with many more women participating in our survey (n = 1583) than men (n = 542) or non-binary and other gender participants (n = 31). This significantly reduces the power of our test and increases the chances of a Type II error.

We found a significant effect of gender, F(2,2153) = 3.18, p < .042, ηp2 < .01 (trivial effect size; Cohen, 1988). Posthoc tests using Tukey’s HSD revealed that women reported lower subjective well-being than men but higher subjective well-being than non-binary and other gender participants, while non-binary and other gender participants reported the least amount of subjective well-being overall (see Figure 1 for a comparison).

References

Cohen J. (1988). Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences. New York, NY: Routledge Academic.