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Satterthwaite 1946
Satterthwaite 1946
Author(s): F. E. Satterthwaite
Source: Biometrics Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 6 (Dec., 1946), pp. 110-114
Published by: International Biometric Society
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F. E. Satterthwaite
General Electric Company,Ft. Wayne, Indiana
1. Introduction
(1) +
F.i.-^d.'e d^+i^.*) (zu
(2) '
V .lfeMlfMt(i-ikl
e 1300 30012/ J J \n
where e is the number of experiments and n is the number of females
in each experiment. Variance estimates such as (2) have been called
110
111
fa\
(8) +fr \ ^46,659, + (24) (459) _ (25) (231)1
F(*-<->=7[-300- ?3M-300-J
1 17<l
= -[155 + 37-19] = ??
e e
From (7) we have
[155 + 37-19]2
(9) 2
(155)* (37)2 (19)
3 72
1,100
29,929
=3?
8,008 + 19 + 1
From chi-square tables interpolated for 3.7 d.f. at the 5 percent and
95 percent points we find that, with a high degree of probability,
112
6 e
Thus if it were necessary to reduce V to 9 and if time were im?
portant so that a second series of experiments could not be made, we
should run
(12) ,.i?2Ln9
4. Difference of Means
The usual estimate of variance used in Student t tests for the dif?
ference of two means is
(14)
Vi=[^.):;r,][_v_ii]
with
(15) rt = rt + r2
degrees of freedom. This assumes that both populations have the same
variance. Seldom do we have positive evidence that this is so and
often we have evidence that the variances are different. For example,
F = (MS1)/(MS2) may be significant. Note that a non-significant F
is not evidence that the variances are equal, especially if one of the
MS's has a small number of degrees of freedom.
The assumption of equal variances can be avoided by use of a
complex estimate of variance,
(16) t.-^v+i^
with
113
(18)
^[HW^H]^.],,,
r? = 99 +9 = 108
The complex estimate gives
(19)
5. Conclusion
references
(1) Crump,S. Lee. The estimationof variancecomponentsin the analysis of variance.
BiometricsBulletin2 :1:7-ll. February1946.
(2) Satterthwaite,Franklin E. Synthesis of variance. Psychometrika6:309-316.
October 1941.
(3) Smith,H. Fairfield. The problemof comparingthe resultsof two experiments with
unequal errors. Journalof the Council of Scientificand Industrial Research
9 :211-212. August 1936.
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