SIMPLE MAIN EFFECTS

Click [http://ssc.utexas.edu/software/faqs/spss#SPSS_35 here]

to find out how to use EMMEANS in GLM to test simple main effects. You can additionally also add ADJ(BONFERRONI) or ADJ(SIDAK) to the /EMMEANS subcommand line to correct for multiple t-tests and use /EMMEANS for designs involving only between subjects factors (see some examples [http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/spss/seminars/Repeated_Measures/default.htm here].)

Simple effects involving between subject factors can also be specified in SPSS using the [attachment:lmatrix.pdf /LMATRIX subcommand] and the /MMATRIX subcommand for within subjects factors or [http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0107&L=spssx-l&P=13210 combinations of the two]. [http://www.nicholasgibson.com/lmatrix.html See also.]

MANOVA can also be used to compare pairs of within subjects factor levels in each group separately using the overall Mean Square Error which was used for testing the original interaction which was computed using all the groups. For example to decompose the Time x A interaction separately into the differences in times in groups 1 and 2 we can use the below. Further details are available [http://support.spss.com/ProductsExt/SPSS/Documentation/Statistics/articles/simple.htm here.]

MANOVA V1 V2 BY GROUP(1,2)
 /WSFACTORS=TIME(2)
 /DESIGN=MWITHIN GROUP(1), MWITHIN GROUP(2).

See David Nichols's illustrations using the above SPSS syntax for explaining all types of interactions [attachment:simple.txt here.] There are also illustrations of simple effects in the [http://imaging.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/StatsCourse2006 ANOVA Grad talk] and [attachment:lmat.sps some SPSS syntax here for two-way interactions.]

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