TABLE 6-6 According to Investment Digest, the Arithmetic Mean of the Annual

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TABLE 6-6
According to Investment Digest, the arithmetic mean of the annual return for common stocks from 1926-2010 was 9.5% but the value of the variance was not mentioned. Also 25% of the annual returns were below 8% while 65% of the annual returns were between 8% and 11.5%. The article claimed that the distribution of annual return for common stocks was bell-shaped and approximately symmetric. Assume that this distribution is normal with the mean given above. Answer the following questions without the help of a calculator, statistical software or statistical table.
-Referring to Table 6-6, find the two values that will bound the middle 80% of the annual returns?

Formulate and interpret research hypotheses in factorial studies.

Grasp the role of software, like SPSS, in performing factorial ANOVA.

Know the misconceptions about the relationship between main effects and interaction effects.

Understand the experimental design considerations in factorial ANOVA.

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