ABSTRACT
Simple Analysis The simplest of all experimental analyses is just to take the data as we collect it and look to see if there is any difference in the responses between the sets of conditions we have investigated. However, in any and all experimental work, the results we observe are subject to variation. If there were no variation, then the discipline of statistical analysis would not need to exist and we could perform this simple analysis without any concern. But there is, in reality, variation that must be accounted for as we sift through the data to see if the differences we observe are bigger than the level of variation that surrounds them. This is the role of statistics in experimental design.
