TABLE 11-3 As Part of an Evaluation Program, a Sporting Goods Retailer

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TABLE 11-3
As part of an evaluation program, a sporting goods retailer wanted to compare the downhill coasting speeds of 4 brands of bicycles. She took 3 of each brand and determined their maximum downhill speeds. The results are presented in miles per hour in the table below.
Trial Barth Tornado Reiser Shaw
1 43 37 41 43
2 46 38 45 45
3 43 39 42 46
-Referring to Table 11-3, based on the Tukey-Kramer procedure with an overall level of significance of 0.05, the retailer would decide that the mean speed for the Tornado brand is significantly different from each of the mean speeds for other brands.

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