Advanced Topic: a Health Psychologist Recorded the Number of Close

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Advanced topic: A health psychologist recorded the number of close inter-personal attachments of 45-year-olds who were in excellent,fair,or poor health.People in the Excellent Health group had 4,3,2,and 3 close attachments; people in the Fair Health group had 3,5,and 8 close attachments; and people in the Poor Health group had 3,1,0,and 2 close attachments.Using the .05 level,is there a significant difference in number of attachments among 45-year-olds having different levels of health?
a.Carry out the five steps of hypothesis testing and make a complete analysis of variance table.
b.Sketch the distributions involved.
c.Figure the effect size of this study and indicate whether it is nearer to small,medium,or large.
d.Explain the logic of what you did to a person who is familiar with the analysis of variance using the approach in which you figure the variance for each group,but who has not learned anything about the structural model approach.(Be sure to explain dividing the overall deviation from the grand mean,the logic of the different parts of the analysis of variance table,and how all this relates to the logic of the approach in which you figure the variance for each group.)

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