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2. Use the following information for problems A-D.
Researchers want to determine whether or not there is a difference in systolic blood pressure based on how many hours a person exercises per week. They divide a sample of 72 people into 3 groups based on how many hours they exercise per week. Group 1 exercises less than 2 hours per week, Group 2 exercises between 2 and 5 hours per week, and Group 3 exercises more than 5 hours per week. Researchers measure and record the systolic blood pressure for each participant. They choose α = 0.05 level to test their results. For your convenience, I have prepared an excel file with the data titled: data_homework10_BP groups. Use this data to run a One-way Anova. Use the results of this analysis to answer problems 10-13.
A. What is the between groups degrees of freedom for this study?
a. 2
b. 3
c. 72
d. 69
Question B
True or False, this finding is statistically significant.
a. True
b. False
Question C
Based on this information, the researcher should make the decision to ___________.
a. reject the null hypothesis
b. fail to reject the null hypothesis
Question D
How do you interpret this finding? There ____ enough evidence to conclude that there is a difference between the blood pressure measurements for the 3 groups at the 0.05 significance level.
a. is
b. is not
Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 |
104 | 97 | 123 |
106 | 116 | 107 |
104 | 98 | 127 |
92 | 95 | 133 |
112 | 108 | 114 |
107 | 106 | 93 |
150 | 102 | 113 |
145 | 108 | 114 |
135 | 94 | 116 |
160 | 100 | 155 |
157 | 101 | 105 |
143 | 119 | 120 |
154 | 89 | 122 |
155 | 113 | 125 |
138 | 99 | 131 |
149 | 93 | 124 |
142 | 107 | 137 |
128 | 125 | 142 |
138 | 104 | 135 |
136 | 110 | 133 |
147 | 124 | 126 |
148 | 181 | 129 |
134 | 118 | 155 |
148 | 135 | 110 |