A Researcher Has Used a One-Way Analysis of Variance Model

question 105

Short Answer

A researcher has used a one-way analysis of variance model to test whether the average starting salaries differ among recent graduates from the nursing, engineering, business, and education disciplines. She has randomly selected four graduates from each of the four areas.
Determine the degrees of freedom treatment, degrees of freedom error, and degrees of freedom total, and state the critical value of the F statistic at α = .05

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