In ANOVA, mean squares are used to determine whether factors (treatments) are significant. The treatment mean square is obtained by dividing the treatment sum of squares by the degrees of freedom. The treatment mean square represents the variation between the sample means.
What does mean square in SPSS mean?
The Mean Square for Within Groups is often called “Mean Square Error”, or Mse. Note that each mean square is the relevant Sum of Squares divided by its degrees of freedom (D.F.). The F-ratio is MSt/Mse. F-prob. is the significance level for the F-ratio. SPSS only shows this to three digits - so the fact that it says .
No. The term mean square is obtained by dividing the term sum of squares by the degrees of freedom. The mean square of the error (MSE) is obtained by dividing the sum of squares of the residual error by the degrees of freedom :)