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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 28.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Brain Res. 2004 Aug 12;153(1):171–180. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2003.11.014

Table 3.

A mixed factorial ANOVA with repeated measures was used to analyze the effects of psychostimulant conditioning

Effect d.f. SS F P-value
Drug 2 0.938 15.40 <0.0001*
    Psychostimulant vs. vehicle 1 0.747 24.52 <0.0001*
    Amphetamine vs. cocaine 1 0.186 6.10 <0.01*
Time 3 0.248 2.72 <0.05*
    Time bin 1 vs. time bins 2, 3, and 4 1 0.087 2.86 <0.05*
    Time bin 2 vs. time bins 3 and 4 1 0.073 2.41 =0.062
    Time bin 3 vs. time bin 4 1 0.091 2.98 <0.05*
Drug × time interaction 6 0.178 0.97 =0.445
    Time bin 1—psychostimulant vs. vehicle 1 0.100 3.29 =0.036
    Time bin 2—psychostimulant vs. vehicle 1 0.055 1.80 =0.091
    Time bin 3—psychostimulant vs. vehicle 1 0.315 10.35 <0.001*
    Time bin 3—amphetamine vs. cocaine 1 0.053 1.74 =0.094
    Time bin 4—psychostimulant vs. vehicle 1 0.378 12.42 <0.001*
    Time bin 4—amphetamine vs. cocaine 1 0.174 5.73 <0.01*

A series of orthogonal contrasts were carried out as planned comparisons for each factor. Such tests do not inflate type I error, as the variance components (sums of squares, SS) and degrees of freedom (d.f.) are independent and additive. The SS for the interaction factor did not meet the requirement of additivity and thus the Bonferroni step-down procedure was used to maintain type I error at a constant rate. Asterisks indicate P-values that were statistically significant at an experiment-wise α of P = 0.05.