Supplementary Exercise 12.43 of IPS7e ------------------------------------- (a) I = 5, N = 8*5 = 40 MSE = 50, DFE = N-I = 40-5 = 35 MSG = 57, DFG = I-1 = 5-1 = 4 F = MSG/MSE = 57/50 = 1.14 ~ F(4,35) under H0: all population means equal P = P(F(4,35)>1.14) > 0.1, because 1.14<2.18 = 90% perc. of F(4,25) = 1-0.646159 = 0.354 using Minitab/Stata Conclusion: there is no evidence at the 5% significance level against H0, so H0 cannot be rejected. The data do not provide reason to say that there is any difference between the groups. (b) I = 3, N = 7*3 = 21 SSE = 90, DFE = N-I = 21-3 = 18, MSE = SSE/DFE = 5 SSG = 40, DFG = I-1 = 2, MSG = SSG/DFG = 20 F = F = MSG/MSE = 20/5 = 4.0 ~ F(2,18) under H0: all population means equal P = P(F(2,18)>4.0) < 0.05, because 4.0>3.68 = 95% perc. of F(2,15) = 1-0.963466 = 0.037 using Minitab/Stata Conclusion: there is evidence at the 5% significance level against H0, so H0 should be rejected - there are some differences between population means. The evidence is not very strong, however. Below we show Minitab listings from the Calc-Probability Distribution menu. The results could also be obtained from the Graph-Probability Distribution Plot menu. --- CDF 1.14; F 4 35. F distribution with 4 DF in numerator and 35 DF in denominator x P( X <= x ) 1.14 0.646159 --- CDF 4.0; F 2 18. F distribution with 2 DF in numerator and 18 DF in denominator x P( X <= x ) 4 0.963466