Special Topics 504: Practical Methods in Analyzing Animal Science Experiments Multiple Comparisons of Means Rejection of H o does not imply that all of k means are different from one another. H o : μ 2 1 = μ 2 2 = μ 2 3 = μ 2 4 = μ 2 5 H a : μ 2 1 ≠ μ 2 2 ≠ … The problem is that it is generally invalid to employ multiple t-tests to examine all possible pairs of means. … But there are statistical test to do so referred to as “multiple comparison tests”.

Special Topics 504: Practical Methods in Analyzing Animal Science Experiments Multiple Comparisons of Means Nobody agrees on the best test to use. However there are two test that are most often used: Tukey’s test Student-Newman-Keuls test (SNK) There is also a third which you might see – a Duncan’s test (in older literature) or a Duncan’s multiple-range test.

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