MAN Analysis Syntax Editor
Select Repeated measures ANOVA in the Type of analysis list and Analysis syntax editor in the Specification method list on the General ANOVA/MANOVA Startup Panel - Quick tab. Then click the OK button to display the MAN Analysis Syntax Editor. The editor contains two tabs: Keywords and Specifications. The Keywords tab and the Specifications tab contain buttons to insert keywords and specifications in the Analysis syntax edit field at the location of the cursor. The available Keywords can also be typed directly into the Analysis syntax edit field. Note that the editor will also be displayed if you click the Syntax editor button in the ANOVA/MANOVA Quick Specs or the MAN Analysis Wizard Extended Options dialog box.
| Element Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Analysis syntax | Enter command syntax into the Analysis syntax edit field to completely specify the design, as well as various parameters that are used in the computations. |
| OK (Run) | Click the OK (Run) button to begin the computations and display the ANOVA Results dialog box. |
| Cancel | Click the Cancel button to return to the General ANOVA/MANOVA Startup Panel, ignoring any changes that you have made in the editor. |
| < Back | Click the < Back button to move back to the ANOVA/MANOVA Quick Specs or the MAN Analysis Wizard Extended Options dialog box (depending on the manner in which the MAN Analysis Syntax Editor was displayed). Note that when you click the < Back button in the MAN Analysis Syntax Editor after introducing additional customizations, the customizations specified in the MAN Analysis Syntax Editor will not be translated "back" to the Quick specs dialog box or the Analysis Wizard dialog box. |
| Options | Click the Options button to display the Options menu. |
  Cut, Copy, Paste
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Use the standard Cut, Copy, and Paste editing operations in the Analysis syntax edit field; these operations can be accessed by clicking the respective buttons, or via the standard keyboard shortcuts. For details, refer to the description of the Edit menu. |
| Open | Click the Open button to display the standard Open File dialog box, which is used to open previously saved text (program syntax) files. |
| Save As | Click the Save As button to display the standard Save As dialog box, which is used to save the current Analysis syntax to a text file. The text files can be edited by practically all text editing and word processing programs. |
| MANOVA and GLM syntax conventions | Overviews and examples are available for the MANOVA syntax. See
ANOVA/MANOVA Syntax Overview and
ANOVA/MANOVA Syntax Examples for further details. The MANOVA syntax conventions are essentially identical to the
GLM syntax conventions (see the General Linear Model (GLM) module), with only a few omissions relating to the number of repeated measures factors, the number of categorical predictor factors, and the type of analysis.
Note: using Quick specs dialog to write the syntax. In practically all cases, the most efficient way to write ANOVA/MANOVA syntax is to use the
ANOVA/MANOVA Quick-specs dialog box. Specifically, from the
General ANOVA/MANOVA Startup Panel - Quick tab, select the desired analysis in the Type of analysis list, Quick specs dialog as the Specification method, and then click OK in the
Startup Panel to display the respective ANOVA/MANOVA Quick specs dialog box.
Note: when selecting a Type of analysis, it is not necessary that your design matches exactly the chosen type of design. For example, if you want to exclude certain effects from a factorial ANOVA design, choose
Factorial ANOVA from the General ANOVA/MANOVA Startup Panel - Quick tab, specify the full factorial design, and then in the ANOVA/MANOVA Quick Specs dialog box click the Syntax editor button. The syntax for the full factorial design (as specified in the ANOVA/MANOVA Quick Specs dialog box) will be written out to the syntax editor, and you can now modify the
DESIGN statement to customize the design (e.g., to drop effects).
See also: ANOVA/MANOVA - Index, ANOVA/MANOVA Syntax Overview, and ANOVA/MANOVA Syntax Examples. |