TV News Viewing Habits
a Statistician Employed by a Television

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Essay

TV News Viewing Habits
A statistician employed by a television rating service wanted to determine if there were differences in television viewing habits among three different cities in New York.She took a random sample of five adults in each of the cities and asked each to report the number of hours spent watching television in the previous week.The results are shown below.(Assume normal distributions with equal variances. )
$$\begin{array}{l}\text { Hour Spent Watehing News on Television }\\\begin{array} { c c c } \hline \text { Albany } & \text { Syracuse } & \text { Utica } \\\hline 25 & 28 & 23 \\31 & 33 & 18 \\18 & 35 & 21 \\23 & 29 & 17 \\27 & 36 & 15 \\\hline\end{array}\end{array}$$
-{TV News Viewing Habits Narrative} Set up the ANOVA Table.Use $\alpha$ = 0.05 to determine the critical value.

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