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Effects

Example: Consider the data set of the following table.

Axis
 Reduction Gear Noise
Rolled Imported 39.6
Rolled National 42.1
Imported National 40.9
Cut National 38.2
Rolled National 42
Cut Imported 41.3
Imported Imported 39.6
Rolled National 40.3
Imported National 40.7
Imported Imported 36.9
Rolled Imported 40.2
Cut Imported 46.8
Cut Imported 40.3
Cut National 37.4
Cut National 37
Rolled Imported 48.4
Imported Imported 39.9
Imported National 39.4
Rolled Imported 40.9
Rolled National 38.9
Cut Imported 40.5
Cut National 42.3
Imported Imported 38.1
 Imported Imported 38
Imported Imported 36.2
Rolled Imported 41
Cut Imported 39.9
Rolled Imported 41
Cut National 41.3
Imported National 42
Cut Imported 39.3
Cut National 42.1
Imported Imported 36.7
Cut National 40.5
Rolled National 38.9
Imported Imported 37.2
Rolled Imported 39.9
Rolled National 43.7
Imported National 41.4
Rolled National 41
Cut Imported 41.3
Imported National 41.3
Imported Imported 36.7
Rolled National 40.1
Cut National 41.3
Rolled Imported 41
Imported National 40.6
Cut National 40.4
Rolled National 40.3
Imported National 41.3
Cut Imported 40.1
Rolled Imported 42.7
Cut Imported 41.6
Imported National 41.6

 

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To use the tool Effects, the user must follow these steps:

1. Access the menu:


2. The following screen will be shown:


3. With the cursor in the field Data Set, select the columns that contain the data, including the titles of the columns. If only the data is selected, disable the option Columns with Name. The names of the columns can not contain symbols, space or tab.

4. Then, click the button Read.

5. Select the Response Variable in the appropriate item.

6. Create the Formula. Use double click in one of the variables of the process to add it in the box Formula.

7. In Show Results, choose one of the options. We suggest the option New Sheet because Action does not have the undo command.

8. To finish, click Ok.

Results and Interpretation

Once the process is finished, the following results will be shown:



  • In the chart, the black points are the means of each level of the factor, which in the table are called Effects. 

  • The red lines represent the confidence interval to the means of the levels of the factor.