A Construction Engineer Has Designed an Experiment to Investigate 3

question 17

Essay

A construction engineer has designed an experiment to investigate 3 different types of pressure treatment that can be applied to raw lumber. The experiment was conducted as a completely randomized design in which 30 pieces of raw lumber were selected with 10 assigned at random to each of the three pressure treatments. The response variable was water repellency. The sample means and the sum of squared error are given below. SSE = 168.2
a) Construct the ANOVA table for this experiment.
b) Test the equality of the means of the three different treatments using a .05 significance level.
c) Using the 95% Tukey-Kramer procedure determine which pairs of means are significantly different.

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Definitions:

Barriers

Obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder access to a market, including various forms such as legal, technological, or economic barriers.

Price Control

Government-imposed limits on the prices that can be charged for goods and services in the market.

Differentiating Products

The strategy of making a product or service stand out from competitors by emphasizing its unique features or qualities.

Close Substitutes

Goods or services that can serve as replacements for each other with minimal difference in utility for the consumer.