Dear Tal Galili,
thanks a lot for your answer! I agree with you, the t-test is comparing 2 
conditions at one level of stimulus, while the ANOVA table is testing the 
significance of the interaction between condition and stimuls....the two tests 
are testing two different things.

But still I don´t understand which is the right way to perform the analysis in 
order to solve my problem. 

Let´s consider now only the table I posted before. 
The same stimuli in the table have been presented to subjects in two 
conditions: 
A and AH, where AH is the condition A plus something elese (let´s call it "H"). 
 
I want to know if AT GLOBAL  LEVEL adding "H" bring to better results in the 
participants evaluations of the stimuli rather than the stimulus presented only 
with condition "A". 

Data in column "response" are evaluation on realism of the stimulus from a 7 
point scale.

If I calculate the mean for each stmulus in each condition, the results show 
that for each stimulus the AH condition is always greater than the first. 
Anyway, doing a t-test to compare the stimuli by couple (es. flat_550_W_realism 
in condition A,  flat_550_W_realism in condition AH) I get that only sometimes 
the differences are statistically significant.  I ask you if there is a way to 
say that condition AH is better than condition A, at global level. 



In attachment you find the table in .txt and also in .csv format. Is it 
possible 
for you to make an example in R, including also the R results
in order to tell me what to see in the console to see if my problem is solved 
or 
not?

For example, I was checking in the anova results the stimulus:conditon 
line.....but I don´t know if my anova analysis was correct or
not.


I am not an expert of R, nor of statistics ;-( 
Anyway I am doing my best to study and understand.

Please enlighten me.

Thanks in advance

Best regards




________________________________
From: Tal Galili <tal.gal...@gmail.com>
To: Frodo Jedi <frodo.j...@yahoo.com>
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Sent: Wed, January 5, 2011 10:15:41 AM
Subject: Re: [R] t-test or ANOVA...who wins? Help please!


Hello Frodo,

It is not clear to me from your questions some of the basics of your analysis.

If you only have two levels of a factor, and one response - why in the anova do 
you use more factors (and their interactions)?
In that sense, it is obvious that your results would differ from the t-test.

In either case, I am not sure if any of these methods are valid since your data 
doesn't seem to be normal.
Here is an example code of how to get the same results from aov and t.test.  
And 
also a nonparametric option (that might be more fitting)



flat_550_W_realism =c(3,3,5,3,3,3,3,5,3,3,5,7,5,2,3)
flat_550_W_realism_AH =c(7,4,5,3,6,5,3,5,5,7,2,7,5, 5)

x <- c(rep(1, length(flat_550_W_realism)),
rep(2, length(flat_550_W_realism_AH)))

y <- c(flat_550_W_realism , flat_550_W_realism_AH)

# equal results between t test and anova
t.test(y ~ x, var.equal= T)
summary(aov(y ~ x))

# plotting the data:
boxplot(y ~ x) # group 1 is not at all symetrical...
wilcox.test(y ~ x) # a more fitting test



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On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Frodo Jedi <frodo.j...@yahoo.com> wrote:


>I kindly ask you an help because I really don´t know how to solve this problem.
>



      
number                  stimulus condition response
1             flat_550_W_realism         A        3
2             flat_550_W_realism         A        3
3             flat_550_W_realism         A        5
4             flat_550_W_realism         A        3
5             flat_550_W_realism         A        3
6             flat_550_W_realism         A        3
7             flat_550_W_realism         A        3
8             flat_550_W_realism         A        5
9             flat_550_W_realism         A        3
10            flat_550_W_realism         A        3
11            flat_550_W_realism         A        5
12            flat_550_W_realism         A        7
13            flat_550_W_realism         A        5
14            flat_550_W_realism         A        2
15            flat_550_W_realism         A        3
16            flat_550_W_realism        AH        7
17            flat_550_W_realism        AH        4
18            flat_550_W_realism        AH        5
19            flat_550_W_realism        AH        3
20            flat_550_W_realism        AH        6
21            flat_550_W_realism        AH        5
22            flat_550_W_realism        AH        3
23            flat_550_W_realism        AH        5
24            flat_550_W_realism        AH        5
25            flat_550_W_realism        AH        7
26            flat_550_W_realism        AH        2
27            flat_550_W_realism        AH        7
28            flat_550_W_realism        AH        5
29            flat_550_W_realism        AH        5
30         bump_2_step_W_realism         A        1
31         bump_2_step_W_realism         A        3
32         bump_2_step_W_realism         A        5
33         bump_2_step_W_realism         A        1
34         bump_2_step_W_realism         A        3
35         bump_2_step_W_realism         A        2
36         bump_2_step_W_realism         A        5
37         bump_2_step_W_realism         A        4
38         bump_2_step_W_realism         A        4
39         bump_2_step_W_realism         A        4
40         bump_2_step_W_realism         A        4
41         bump_2_step_W_realism        AH        3
42         bump_2_step_W_realism        AH        5
43         bump_2_step_W_realism        AH        1
44         bump_2_step_W_realism        AH        5
45         bump_2_step_W_realism        AH        4
46         bump_2_step_W_realism        AH        4
47         bump_2_step_W_realism        AH        5
48         bump_2_step_W_realism        AH        4
49         bump_2_step_W_realism        AH        3
50         bump_2_step_W_realism        AH        4
51         bump_2_step_W_realism        AH        5
52         bump_2_step_W_realism        AH        4
53         hole_2_step_W_realism         A        3
54         hole_2_step_W_realism         A        3
55         hole_2_step_W_realism         A        4
56         hole_2_step_W_realism         A        1
57         hole_2_step_W_realism         A        4
58         hole_2_step_W_realism         A        3
59         hole_2_step_W_realism         A        5
60         hole_2_step_W_realism         A        4
61         hole_2_step_W_realism         A        3
62         hole_2_step_W_realism         A        4
63         hole_2_step_W_realism         A        7
64         hole_2_step_W_realism         A        5
65         hole_2_step_W_realism         A        1
66         hole_2_step_W_realism         A        4
67         hole_2_step_W_realism        AH        7
68         hole_2_step_W_realism        AH        5
69         hole_2_step_W_realism        AH        5
70         hole_2_step_W_realism        AH        1
71         hole_2_step_W_realism        AH        5
72         hole_2_step_W_realism        AH        5
73         hole_2_step_W_realism        AH        5
74         hole_2_step_W_realism        AH        2
75         hole_2_step_W_realism        AH        6
76         hole_2_step_W_realism        AH        5
77         hole_2_step_W_realism        AH        5
78         hole_2_step_W_realism        AH        6
79     bump_2_heel_toe_W_realism         A        3
80     bump_2_heel_toe_W_realism         A        3
81     bump_2_heel_toe_W_realism         A        3
82     bump_2_heel_toe_W_realism         A        2
83     bump_2_heel_toe_W_realism         A        3
84     bump_2_heel_toe_W_realism         A        3
85     bump_2_heel_toe_W_realism         A        4
86     bump_2_heel_toe_W_realism         A        3
87     bump_2_heel_toe_W_realism         A        4
88     bump_2_heel_toe_W_realism         A        4
89     bump_2_heel_toe_W_realism         A        6
90     bump_2_heel_toe_W_realism         A        5
91     bump_2_heel_toe_W_realism         A        4
92     bump_2_heel_toe_W_realism        AH        7
93     bump_2_heel_toe_W_realism        AH        3
94     bump_2_heel_toe_W_realism        AH        4
95     bump_2_heel_toe_W_realism        AH        2
96     bump_2_heel_toe_W_realism        AH        5
97     bump_2_heel_toe_W_realism        AH        6
98     bump_2_heel_toe_W_realism        AH        4
99     bump_2_heel_toe_W_realism        AH        4
100    bump_2_heel_toe_W_realism        AH        4
101    bump_2_heel_toe_W_realism        AH        5
102    bump_2_heel_toe_W_realism        AH        2
103    bump_2_heel_toe_W_realism        AH        6
104    bump_2_heel_toe_W_realism        AH        5
105    hole_2_heel_toe_W_realism         A        3
106    hole_2_heel_toe_W_realism         A        3
107    hole_2_heel_toe_W_realism         A        1
108    hole_2_heel_toe_W_realism         A        3
109    hole_2_heel_toe_W_realism         A        3
110    hole_2_heel_toe_W_realism         A        5
111    hole_2_heel_toe_W_realism         A        2
112    hole_2_heel_toe_W_realism        AH        5
113    hole_2_heel_toe_W_realism        AH        1
114    hole_2_heel_toe_W_realism        AH        3
115    hole_2_heel_toe_W_realism        AH        6
116    hole_2_heel_toe_W_realism        AH        5
117    hole_2_heel_toe_W_realism        AH        4
118    hole_2_heel_toe_W_realism        AH        4
119    hole_2_heel_toe_W_realism        AH        3
120    hole_2_heel_toe_W_realism        AH        3
121    hole_2_heel_toe_W_realism        AH        1
122    hole_2_heel_toe_W_realism        AH        5
123 bump_2_combination_W_realism         A        4
124 bump_2_combination_W_realism         A        2
125 bump_2_combination_W_realism         A        4
126 bump_2_combination_W_realism         A        1
127 bump_2_combination_W_realism         A        4
128 bump_2_combination_W_realism         A        4
129 bump_2_combination_W_realism         A        2
130 bump_2_combination_W_realism         A        4
131 bump_2_combination_W_realism         A        2
132 bump_2_combination_W_realism         A        4
133 bump_2_combination_W_realism         A        2
134 bump_2_combination_W_realism         A        6
135 bump_2_combination_W_realism        AH        7
136 bump_2_combination_W_realism        AH        3
137 bump_2_combination_W_realism        AH        4
138 bump_2_combination_W_realism        AH        1
139 bump_2_combination_W_realism        AH        6
140 bump_2_combination_W_realism        AH        5
141 bump_2_combination_W_realism        AH        5
142 bump_2_combination_W_realism        AH        6
143 bump_2_combination_W_realism        AH        5
144 bump_2_combination_W_realism        AH        4
145 bump_2_combination_W_realism        AH        2
146 bump_2_combination_W_realism        AH        4
147 bump_2_combination_W_realism        AH        2
148 bump_2_combination_W_realism        AH        5
149 hole_2_combination_W_realism         A        5
150 hole_2_combination_W_realism         A        2
151 hole_2_combination_W_realism         A        4
152 hole_2_combination_W_realism         A        1
153 hole_2_combination_W_realism         A        5
154 hole_2_combination_W_realism         A        4
155 hole_2_combination_W_realism         A        3
156 hole_2_combination_W_realism         A        5
157 hole_2_combination_W_realism         A        2
158 hole_2_combination_W_realism         A        5
159 hole_2_combination_W_realism         A        5
160 hole_2_combination_W_realism         A        1
161 hole_2_combination_W_realism        AH        7
162 hole_2_combination_W_realism        AH        5
163 hole_2_combination_W_realism        AH        3
164 hole_2_combination_W_realism        AH        1
165 hole_2_combination_W_realism        AH        6
166 hole_2_combination_W_realism        AH        4
167 hole_2_combination_W_realism        AH        7
168 hole_2_combination_W_realism        AH        5
169 hole_2_combination_W_realism        AH        5
170 hole_2_combination_W_realism        AH        2
171 hole_2_combination_W_realism        AH        6
172 hole_2_combination_W_realism        AH        2
173 hole_2_combination_W_realism        AH        4
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