// -->, JnF Specialties, LLC As long as a probability sampling method (every member in a population has an equal probability of being selected to be in the sample) is used to collect the data, we can assume that each observation has been randomly and independently sampled. MANOVA follows similar assumptions as in ANOVA for the independence of observations and homogeneity of variances. This will be covered in the slides for this section, so please do go and have a look at the syntax that has been used. Can FOSS software licenses (e.g.