Samples Were Drawn from Three Populations $n _ { 1 } = 8 , n _ { 2 } = 8$

question 37

Multiple Choice

Samples were drawn from three populations. The sample sizes were $n _ { 1 } = 8 , n _ { 2 } = 8$ , and $n _ { 3 } = 5$ . The sample means were $\bar { x } _ { 1 } = 1.23 , \bar { x } _ { 2 } = 1.39$ , and $\bar { x } _ { 3 } = 1.60$ . The sample standard deviations were $s _ { 1 } = 0.49 , s _ { 2 } = 0.28$ , and $s _ { 3 } = 0.44$ . The grand mean is $\bar { x } = 1.379048$ . Compute the mean squares MSTr.

• A) 3.0039
• B) 1.2667
• C) 0.2114
• D) 0.4228

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