# One way Anova question

In one way anova, does the one refer to the independent variable or dependent variable? For example I have three groups: Group A (Music Therapy) Group B (Cognitive therapy) and Group C (no therapy) dependent variable is stress scores

Does the one way refer to the stress scores (dependent variable) or to the therapies of which there are 3?

Many thanks Shindy

• What's wrong with the Wikipedia description of One-way analysis of variance (see the third paragraph)? The 'many'-way refer to the number of categorical (independent) variables; otherwise, we talk of multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) when there are multiple response (dependent) variables.
– chl
Dec 1, 2016 at 21:01
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