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Hello experts!

I have a design in which I have 4 levels of a treatment: 1, 2, 3, and 4.  I predict that signal should be a monotonically increasing function with 1 having the lowest signal and 4 having the greatest.  What is the best way to set up my EV files to test this?

In the past, I have tried 1 EV per treatment level, and then used a contrast of :

level 1   level 2   level 3   level 4
   -3          -1          1            3

But this method seems to not be quite sensitive enough to detect the effect.  Any other suggestions?

Thank you in advance for your help!