Interaction Effects in Factorial Analysis of Variance (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)

Although factorial analysis is widely used in the social sciences, there is some confusion as to how to use the technique's most powerful feature - the evaluation of interaction effects. Written to remedy this situation, this book explores the issues underlying the effective analysis of interaction in factorial designs.The author begins by describing different ways of characterizing interactions in ANOVA, elucidating both moderator conceptualizations of interactions as well as that of residualized means. After discussing interaction effects using traditional hypothesis testing approaches, it then covers alternative analytic frameworks that focus on effect size methodology and interval estimation. Jaccard summarizes criticisms of classical null hypothesis testing and offers practical guidelines for pursuing magnitude estimation and interval estimation approaches.