Table of experimenter vs treatment and result

      Table of experimenter vs treatment and result


        Article summary

        You are running an experiment to see whether light affects whether plants live or die. This time, each experimenter has 10 plants they will divide up between light and dark environments, and they will register the outcome as either "Lived" or "Died" after four weeks. Back to overview...

        If you enter your results like this:

        This is better than just treatment vs result - you have all your experimental information here including the name of the experimenter. You've summarized the data as counts, which while it doesn't give a detailed plant-by-plant summary as suggested here this doesn't lose any vital information.

         However the way the columns have been arranged, the outcome and treatment variables are not clearly separated, but have been combined together.

        Better to use more rows, and have a row for each combination of the variables, as described here.


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