TABLE 12-19 As Part of an Evaluation Program, a Sporting Goods Retailer

question 25

Essay

TABLE 12-19
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

-Referring to Table 12-19, the calculation of the Kruskal-Wallis test statistic H involves ranking the observations. Construct a table containing these ranks.

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