Extra sum of squares Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-11-05
For nested normal linear models, the decrease in residual sum of squares obtained by adding coefficients is their Extra sum of squares. Dividing by the number of added coefficients and by the full-model residual mean square gives the partial F-test. A sequential analysis of variance attributes this decrease according to the specified order of entry; it need not equal the partial comparison when other terms are retained.
In a fully balanced crossed design, centered indicator columns for the two factors are orthogonal because each pair of levels occurs equally often. Missing cells can change the level-pair counts so that the displayed cross-product becomes nonzero. Then sequential sums of squares depend on term order, although the final additive fit is unchanged. Testing either factor conditional on the other requires its extra sum of squares from the appropriate reduced model.
Write for the all-ones vector and set
The centering assumption makes . Thus the full normal linear model has fitted-value orthogonal projection , and its residual sum of squares is . Assume , as is needed to estimate the unknown error variance from residuals.
For the null that all slopes vanish, the reduced fitted value is , with residual sum of squares . The F-test is
Reject for an upper-tail value exceeding the quantile of this F-distribution. The required theorem is Cochran's theorem: for an isotropic normal distribution, projections onto orthogonal subspaces are independent, and the squared norm on a rank- subspace divided by has a chi-squared distribution with degrees of freedom. Here the null makes the projected mean in zero, so , independently of .
Let be the numbers of columns in the two predictor blocks. To test the first block while retaining the second as nuisance, form
The partial F-test for nested linear models is
Again reject in the upper tail. The difference of the nested fitted-value projections has rank , is orthogonal to the full residual projection, and annihilates the null mean, which gives the same independent chi-squared argument. If a block has no columns, the corresponding test is vacuous.
The phrase orthogonal statistical parameters refers to zero cross-block Fisher information, not to the numerical parameter vectors being perpendicular. In this model the cross-block information is , so the orthogonal coefficient blocks in a centered normal linear model condition is
Then the two fitted subspaces are orthogonal, the block least-squares estimators have zero covariance and are independent because they are jointly Gaussian, and each block's extra sum of squares is unchanged by including the other block. Centering also makes both blocks orthogonal to the intercept.
Let be speed and the tool type. Each fit is a normal linear model with independent errors. The three mean specifications are
The constraints are treatment coding with type 1 as reference. The parameter counts are , respectively. Model 2 gives parallel lines; model 3 allows interaction terms and distinct slopes.
In the analysis of variance interaction row, adding three independent slope differences costs three degrees of freedom. Its extra sum of squares is the reduction in residual sum of squares, . Its mean square is , and its F-test statistic is
Thus the four missing entries are , , , and , to the precision allowed by the rounded output. This tests against the alternative that at least one slope difference is nonzero. Under and the normal linear model assumptions, the statistic has distribution . Its p-value gives no reason to reject at 5%.
The simpler common-line model is inadequate compared with the parallel-line model. Testing against at least one nonzero type effect, while retaining speed, gives the partial F-test
Its p-value is far below , so reject the common-line restriction. This reduction differs from the sequential type sum of squares in the displayed table, because that table adds type before speed. Recommend model 2: different intercepts and a common decreasing slope.
The selected coefficient estimates give
The intercept estimates the expected lifetime of type 1 at speed zero; if zero speed is outside the data range, it is only an extrapolated intercept. Its standard error is , and its Student t-test ratio is , with two-sided p-value . At any fixed speed, type 2 differs from type 1 by hours, with standard error , and p-value , giving little evidence of a difference. Types 3 and 4 exceed type 1 by and hours, with standard errors and ; their test ratios and and p-values and support positive differences. Each of these individual coefficient tests has null value zero, alternative nonzero, and null distribution .
The speed coefficient means a reduction of hours per extra revolution per minute, or hours per additional 100 rpm, for every type. Its standard error is ; the ratio has null distribution when the common slope is zero, and two-sided p-value .
The residual standard error estimates the common noise standard deviation in hours using 15 residual degrees of freedom, since . The coefficient of determination means that about of the corrected lifetime variation is explained by this fit. The overall F-test statistic tests the simultaneous restriction against at least one nonzero coefficient; its null distribution is and its p-value rejects an intercept-only mean. These conclusions remain conditional on suitable regression diagnostics for independent, homoscedastic, approximately normal errors.
The required sketch plots the four fitted lines. Its speed interval is illustrative because the observed speeds are not supplied; the ordering and vertical gaps are determined by the fitted coefficients.
Figure 1.
Parallel fitted tool-lifetime lines for the four tool types
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