hi i'm first-year graduate student.

I got the result of my analysis in which NES is included.

I wonder about the meaning of positive score/negative score of NES.

I know that NES negative score means weaker relative activity in a sample compared with the background population, and positive score means greater relative activity .

I ask you that

1. if i got negative NES, that means nonrespondent have weaker relative activity than respondent group.

2. if i change first column(nonres) with second column(res),

   negative NES -> respondent group have weaker relative activity than nonrespondent group??

   In a nut shell, can i interpret the result depending on design matrix??

<designmatrix> 


here is my desigmatrix of my 5 samples.

nonres res
   0      1
   1      0
   1      0
   1      0
   0      1