Practice Problems ANOVA

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1. In an article Shelf-Space Strategy in Retailing, published in Proceedings:

Southern Marketing Association, the effect of shelf height on the
supermarket sales of canned dog food is investigated. An experiment was
conducted at a small supermarket for a period of 8 days on the sales of a
single brand of dog food, referred to as Arf dog food, involving three levels
of shelf height: knee level, waist level, and eye level. During each day, the
shelf height of the canned dog food was randomly changed on three different
occasions. The remaining sections of the gondola that housed the given
brand were filled with a mixture of dog food brands that were both familiar
and unfamiliar to customers in this particular geographic area. Sales, in
hundreds of dollars, of Arf dog food per day for the three shelf heights are
given. Based on the data, is there a significant difference in the average daily
sales of this dog food based on shelf height? Use a 0.01 level of significance.

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2. The following data are the percents of foreign additives measured by 5

analysts for 3 similar brands of strawberry jam, A, B, and C:

Perform a randomized complete block analysis of variance to test the

hypothesis, at the 0.05 level of significance, that the percent of foreign
additives is the same for all 3 brands of jam. Which brand of jam appears to
have fewer additives?

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3. Scientists in the Department of Plant Pathology at Virginia Tech devised an

experiment in which 5 different treatments were applied to 6 different
locations in an apple orchard to determine if there were significant
differences in growth among the treatments. Treatments 1 through 4
represent different herbicides and treatment 5 represents a control. The
growth period was from May to November in 1982, and the amounts of new
growth, measured in centimeters, for samples selected from the 6 locations
in the orchard were recorded as follows:

Perform an analysis of variance, separating out the treatment, location, and

error sum of squares. Determine if there are significant differences among
the treatment means.

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4. Six different machines are being considered for use in manufacturing rubber
seals. The machines are being compared with respect to tensile strength of
the product. A random sample of four seals from each machine is used to
determine whether the mean tensile strength varies from machine to
machine. The following are the tensile-strength measurements in kilograms
per square centimeter 101:

Perform the analysis of variance at the 0.05 level of significance and

indicate whether or not the mean tensile strengths differ significantly for the
six machines.

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5. Write down the partitioning statement of sum of squares and degree of
freedom for one way analysis of variance along with the necessary
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6. Write down the partitioning statement of sum of squares and degree of

freedom for two way analysis of variance along with the necessary
assumptions

Answers

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1. f = 14.52; yes, the difference is significant.

2. f = 5.99; percent of foreign additives is not the same for all three brands of
jam
3. P-value = 0.1250; not significant
4. f = 0.31; not sufficient evidence to support the hypothesis that there are
differences among the 6 machines.