Hi egoshorn,
Firstly, for now Origin8 only supports repeated measures ANOVA on balanced design data.
The term "balanced design" means that observations should be the same for each combination of levels (or cells).
A sample balanced design data would be following:
Subject Factor1 Factor2 Data
1 aa cc 8.5
1 aa dd 11
2 aa cc 8.5
2 aa dd 10.5
3 aa cc 9.5
3 aa dd 12
1 bb cc 9
1 bb dd 12.5
2 bb cc 9
2 bb dd 11.5
3 bb cc 10
3 bb dd 13
As you can see Factor1 and Factor2 both have 2 levels, and thus the combination of levels is 4:
aa*cc, aa*dd, bb*cc, bb*dd.
At the same time, you can see all these 4 combinations have 1 (the same)observation for each subject.
Therefore, it is a balanced design data.
Therefore, would you mind to check your data?
Or you can paste the data here so that we can take a look if the data is balanced design?
Max
OriginLab Technical Support
Edited by - minimax on 01/23/2008 03:09:19 AM