A Formula for Type III Sums of Squares

03/29/2018
by   Lynn Roy LaMotte, et al.
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Type III methods were introduced by SAS to address difficulties in dummy-variable models for effects of multiple factors and covariates. They are widely used in practice; they are the default method in several statistical computing packages. Type III sums of squares (SSs) are defined by a set of instructions; an explicit mathematical formulation does not seem to exist. An explicit formulation is derived in this paper. It is used to illustrate Type III SSs and their properties in the two-factor ANOVA model.

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