Explain the following sentence: the sum of the SSB and the SSW are equal to the SST.

What will be an ideal response?


In any data set, there is a certain amount of total variance (SST). This variance is distributed both across groups (SSB) and within groups (SSW). Whatever variance does not occur across groups must occur within groups.

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