Instruction 11-7
an Agronomist Wants to Compare the Crop Yield

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Short Answer

Instruction 11-7
An agronomist wants to compare the crop yield of three varieties of chickpea seeds. She plants 15 fields, five with each variety. She then measures the crop yield in bushels per acre. Treating this as a completely randomised design, the results are presented in the table that follows.
$\begin{array}{rrrr}\text { Trial}& \text { Smith }& \text { Walsh}& \text { Trevor }\\\hline1 & 11.1 & 19.0 & 14.6 \\2 & 13.5 & 18.0 & 15.7 \\3 & 15.3 & 19.8 & 16.8 \\4 & 14.6 & 19.6 & 16.7 \\5 & 9.8 & 16.6 & 15.2\end{array}$
-Referring to Instruction 11-7,the value of MSA is _________,while MSBL is __________.

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Definitions:

Yearly Income

The total amount of money earned by an individual or entity in one year from all sources.

SST

Sum of Squares Total, a measure in statistics used to quantify the variability within a dataset.

Sum Of Squares

A statistical measure used to describe the dispersion or variability within a data set, calculated as the sum of the squared differences from the mean.

Error

The difference between the observed value and the true value due to measurement or estimation inaccuracies.