has part preceded by denotes has_specified_input has_specified_output achieves_planned_objective has value time sampled measurement data set study design independent variable data transformation ANOVA balanced design normal distribution hypothesis number of degrees of freedom F-test standardized mean difference confidence interval Mauchly's test for sphericity within subject comparison statistical test sphericity hypothesis categorical variable within subject comparison objective between group comparison objective repeated measure ANOVA true true 1 http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Lemon-kickstart/kr_repms.html adapted from wikipedia and https://statistics.laerd.com/statistical-guides/repeated-measures-anova-statistical-guide-3.php http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/sas/library/repeated_ut.htm Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran ANOVA for correlated samples ANOVA for correlated samples Orlaith Burke Philippe Rocca-Serra Thomas Nichols discussion in https://github.com/ISA-tools/stato/issues/28 repeated measure ANOVA is a kind of ANOVA specifically developed for non-independent observations as found when repeated measurements on the sample experimental unit. repeated measure ANOVA is sensitive to departure from normality (evaluation using Bartlett's test), more so in the case of unbalanced groups (i.e. different sizes of sample populations). Departure from sphericity (evaluation using Mauchly'test) used to be an issue which is now handled robustly by modern tools such as R's lme4 or nlme, which accommodate dependence assumptions other than sphericity. ready for release