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Constance F. Lima-Gonzalez
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One-Way ANOVA
significant difference in the means of two or more unrelated groups that are independent
(Ross & Willson, 2017). The test is more effective if the groups are at least three as
opposed to being just two. The one way ANOVA statistic is also considered an omnibus
statistic as it does not identify the specific groups are statistically significantly different
from each other (Ross & Willson, 2017). To do this, post hoc tests are utilized thus
difference in the number of weekly widgets produced by employees by their work shift.
This should in terms of whether they work the day, night or swing shift. The dependent
variable for this case is widgets while the independent variable is the work shift that has
Research Question
Hypotheses
Null Hypothesis (H0): There is not a statistically significant difference in the number of
weekly widgets produced among day shift, night shift, and swing shift employees.
of weekly widgets produced among day shift, night shift, and swing shift employees.
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Results
This section gives the results of the One-Way ANOVA conducted which will include the
Descriptive Statistics
Table 1 gives the means and standard deviations of the number of weekly widgets
produced during each shift. Data was collected from a total of 30 employees with the
Work Shift M SD
Figure 1 below shows the box plot comparing number of weekly widgets produced by
work shift.
Figure 1: Box plot comparing number of weekly widgets produced by work shift.
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Inferential Results
The One-Way ANOVA test conducted was meant to test whether there was a
statistically significant difference in weekly widgets produced among day shift, night
shift, and swing shift employees. As earlier mentioned, the dependent variable is the
work shift with three levels; day shift, night shift, and swing shift. The p value was
established to be 0.00, less than the conventional alpha, 0.05 thus the results were
widgets produced among day shift, night shift, and swing shift employees. To get the
specific groups are statistically significantly different from each other, post hoc analysis
using the Tukey’s HSD test was conducted and the results show that mean number of
widgets for the day shift was significantly different from the nigh and swing shift (P =
0.000). The number of weekly widgets produced during the night shift is not significantly
different from those produced during the swing shift (P = 0.826). Table 2 gives the
ANOVA summary.
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Table 2: ANOVA Summary Table for the Impact of Work Shift on Widgets Produced
Source df SS MS F p
Total 29 14427.200
working environment with two levels, well aerated and poorly aerated. This will serve to
add meaning to the ANOVA results by including the other factors that affect
productivity by employees.
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References
Olive, D. J. (2017). One Way Anova. In Linear Regression (pp. 175-211). Springer,
Cham.
Ross, A., & Willson, V. L. (2017). One-Way Anova. In Basic and Advanced Statistical
Wagner, W. E. (2016). Using IBM® SPSS® statistics for research methods and social
Descriptives
Widgets
N Mean Std. Deviation Std. Error 95% Confidence Interval for Minimum Maximum
Mean
Widgets
Statistic
18.480 2 27 .000
ANOVA
Widgets
Total 14427.200 29
Widgets
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Tukey HSD
0.05
1 2
displayed.
Multiple Comparisons
Widgets
1 2