A Professor of Statistics at Wayne State University in the US

question 50

Multiple Choice

A professor of statistics at Wayne State University in the US wants to determine whether the average starting salaries among graduates of the 15 universities in Michigan are equal. A sample of 25 recent graduates from each university is randomly taken. The appropriate critical value for the ANOVA test is obtained from the F-distribution with number so of degrees of freedom equal to:

• A) 15 and 25.
• B) 14 and 360.
• C) 360 and 14.
• D) 25 and 15.

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