help > 2 x 3 ANOVA set up
Oct 9, 2025  05:10 PM | Jose Maximo
2 x 3 ANOVA set up

Hi, I have a quesiton about my ANOVA design. I have the following 2nd-level covariates:


age: 19 25 21 21 24 23 29 35 21 25  


sex: 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1


motion: 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.2


HC:       1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0


FEP:      0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1


group1: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1


group2: 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0


group4: 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0


I wanted to run a diagnosis (HC, FEP) by group (1, 2, 4) interaction so I selected these variables and using the covariate tools I created interaction terms :


HC*group1, HC*group2, HC*group4, FEP*group1, FEP*group2, and FEP*group4


Then, on the results tab I did the following contrast to run a 2x3 ancova while controlling for age, sex, and motion: 


 [ 0 0 0 -1 1 0 0 0 0; 0 0 0 0 -1 1 0 0 0; 0 0 0 0 0 -1 1 0 0; 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 1 0; 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 1 ]


The first 3 zeros are for controlling for age, sex, and motion, and the rest are the variables of interest. 


Is this correct? I did not get any warnings or errors so I assumed its correct, but just wanting to make sure this is correct. 


Thank you.

  Edited (Oct 9, 2025  05:10 PM)