TABLE 11-5 A Hotel Chain Has Identically Sized Resorts in 5 Locations

question 28

Short Answer

TABLE 11-5
A hotel chain has identically sized resorts in 5 locations. The data that follow resulted from analyzing the hotel occupancies on randomly selected days in the 5 locations.
-Referring to Table 11-5, the value of MSA is ________ while MSW is ________.

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Definitions:

Rationalism

The view that knowledge is best acquired by reason and factual analysis rather than faith or emotion.

Positivism

The idea that phenomena are governed by, and can be explained by, rules based on objective observation and generalizations from those observations.

Explanation

An attempt to account for the relationships observed among phenomena. A basic goal of communications research is to explain how and why communication phenomena occur.

Two-tailed Hypothesis

A type of hypothesis that predicts either an increase or decrease in outcomes, requiring evidence for significant change in either direction.