A Randomized Block Design Is Used to Compare Three Treatments

question 31

Essay

A randomized block design is used to compare three treatments in six blocks.
Treatment
a. Use the Friedman test to detect differences in location among the three treatment distributions. Test using = 0.05.
b. Find the approximate p-value for the test in (a).
c. Perform an analysis of variance and give the ANOVA table for the analysis, and using statistical software to approximate the p-value for the F-statistic in testing the equality of the three treatment means. Test using = 0.05.
d. Compare the p-values for the tests in (b) and (c).

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