
Use two-way ANOVA to assess differences between the group means that are based on two categorical factors. In this post, we’ll work through two-way ANOVA using Excel. Even if Excel isn’t your main statistical package, this post is an excellent introduction to two-way ANOVA. Excel refers to this analysis as two factor ANOVA.
Two-way ANOVA is a hypothesis test that allows you to compare group means. Like all hypothesis tests, two-way ANOVA uses sample data to infer properties of an entire population.