Balanced designs
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Your design must be balanced to use balanced ANOVA, with the exception of a one-way design. A balanced design is one with equal numbers of observations at each combination of your treatment levels. A quick test to see whether or not you have a balanced design is to use Stat > Tables > Cross Tabulation and Chi-Square. Enter your classification variables and see if you have equal numbers of observations in each cell, indicating balanced data.