Advanced Topic: a Group of First-Year College Students at a Large

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Advanced topic: A group of first-year college students at a large state university was asked to rate the importance of school in relation to the rest of their lives.Students were selected from different ethnic groups (type 1,type 2,or type 3)and different socioeconomic status groups (SES; low or high).The results were as follows: a.Make a chart and graph of the cell and marginal means.
b.Analyze these data using a factorial analysis of variance,testing each effect at the .05 level,and including R² for each effect.
c.Explain your analysis and conclusions to a person who is familiar with one-way analysis of variance (including the structural model),but who does not know anything about factorial designs or the two-way analysis of variance.

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