A Professor of Statistics in Simon Fraser University Wants to Determine

question 58

Multiple Choice

A professor of statistics in Simon Fraser University wants to determine whether the average starting salaries among graduates of the nine universities in British Columbia are equal. A sample of 25 recent graduates from each university was randomly taken. The appropriate critical value for the ANOVA test is obtained from the F-distribution. What are the respective numbers of degrees of freedom for this distribution?

• A) 8 and 216
• B) 9 and 25
• C) 25 and 15
• D) 360 and 14

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