Results of the assignment 2 experiment are on the next two pages: Excel analysis on page 2 and NCSS on page

3. Requirements for report:

Answer the following questions.
1. Determine if there is a significant difference in the average score for the three strategies using a 10%
significance level. Complete the following using the procedures you have been taught:
a. Ho: ___________________
H1: ___average scores for at least two strategies are different_________________
b. Test Statistic Value: ___2.60561______________

c. Rejection Region: Reject Ho if _MSA/MSW> 2.60561, or 208.7727/89.0368 > 2.60561,_or 2.345 > 2.60561_____

d. Decision (Circle one): Reject Ho

Fail to Reject Ho

e. Conclusion in context of the question: We cannot say that the average score for the three strategies differs for
at least 2 strategies.

2. Even if there was no significant differences between the population means, interpret the confidence intervals
for the differences in the means
Strategy A versus Strategy B: ______75.27273-71.72727= 3.54546__________________________
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Strategy A versus Strategy C: ______71.72727-69.13636=2.59091___________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
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Strategy B versus Strategy C: ______75.27273-69.13636=6.13637___________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
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We can say with 95% confidence that the largest error expected in any of the above differences is
+47.265(15.968*2.96)
3. What would you suggest as the next step in the attempt to determine a best strategy for improving morale?
We think we should find the correlation between each strategy and morale to determine the best strategy for
improving morale.

Excel : Anova: Single Factor

SUMMARY
Groups
A
B
C

Count
Sum Average Variance
22 1578 71.72727 69.82684
22 1656 75.27273 124.5887
22 1521 69.13636 72.69481

ANOVA
Source of
Variation
Between Groups
Within Groups

SS
417.5455
5609.318

Total

6026.864

df

MS
F
P-value
F crit
2 208.7727 2.344792 0.104181 3.142809
63 89.0368
65

I dont have the book, so I used the following to use F table and Q table values.
http://home.fuse.net/dgreath/SPSTechnical/tablef10.htm
http://www.stat.duke.edu/courses/Spring98/sta110c/qtable.html

Page/Date/Time
Database
Response

NCSS Analysis of Variance Report

3/30/2012 8:06:23 AM

Score

Tests of Assumptions Section

Assumption
Skewness Normality of Residuals
Kurtosis Normality of Residuals
Omnibus Normality of Residuals
Modified-Levene Equal-Variance Test

Test
Value
-0.9566
0.0540
0.9180
1.7718

Analysis of Variance Table

Source
Sum of
Term
DF
Squares
A: Strategy
2
417.5454
S(A)
63
5609.318
Total (Adjusted)
65
6026.864
Total
66
* Term significant at alpha = 0.05

Prob
Level
0.338757
0.956920
0.631900
0.178390

Mean
Square
208.7727
89.0368

Decision
(0.05)
Accept
Accept
Accept
Accept

F-Ratio
2.34

Prob
Level
0.104181

Power
(Alpha=0.05)
0.457890

Tukey-Kramer's Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for Multiple Comparisons of All Pairs

Response: Score
Term A: Strategy
Alpha=0.050 Error Term=S(A) DF=63 MSE=89.0368 Critical Value=3.3946
Comparison
Groups
A
-B
-C

Lower 95.0%
Simult.C.I.

Mean
Difference

Upper 95.0%
Simult.C.I.

-10.3745
-4.238134

-3.545455
2.590909

3.283588
9.419952

75.27273
71.72727
69.13636

-3.283588
-0.6926793

3.545455
6.136364

10.3745
12.96541

69.13636
71.72727
75.27273

-9.419952
-12.96541

-2.590909
-6.136364

4.238134
0.6926793

Count
22
22
22

Mean
71.72727
75.27273
69.13636

B
-A
-C

22
22
22

C
-A
-B

22
22
22

Test
Result

Notes:
This report provides joint simultaneous confidence intervals for all pairwise differences between
the means.