A Company Conducted an Experiment to Determine the Effect of Two

question 96

Essay

A company conducted an experiment to determine the effect of two types of incentive pay plans on worker productivity for workers of two shifts. The company used an equal number of production workers from each of the two shifts and one-half of these workers were assigned to each plan. Then five workers from each pay plan-shift combination were selected and their productivity (in number of items produced) recorded for a one week period. The following output was generated using Minitab: Is there significant interaction present in this problem? Let = 0.05.
The p-value ______________ indicate significant interaction.
Based on the previous answer, is testing for the main effects, plan and shift, appropriate?
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