Categorical variables as covariate

swhjws · Post by **swhjws** » Sun Dec 12, 2021 11:14 am

Can I use some categorical variables as covariate while doing ANCOVA in JAMOVI?

Post by **jonathon** » Sun Dec 12, 2021 10:51 pm

assuming you're not doing "the wrong thing", and the categorical variable is appropriate to be included as a covariate (which doesn't seem that likely, tbh

). yes you can.

swhjws · Post by **swhjws** » Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:52 am

Thanks, Jonathon. My categorical variable is text type, and JAMOVI seems not to allow use text type covariate. How can I use text type variable as covariate?

Post by **jonathon** » Fri Dec 24, 2021 12:09 am

if you're wanting to use a text type variable as a covariate, i'd suggest the chances that you're not "doing the wrong thing" are pretty slim ... but you can transform the variable to be numeric:

https://blog.jamovi.org/2018/10/23/transforming-variables.html

jonathon

jamovi