Question

A team of comparative psychologists are interested in the maternal behavior or rats. In an experiment, 10, 20, and 25 day-old rat pups were separated from their mothers. They then recorded the time (in seconds) required for the mother rats to retrieve the pups. The psychologists were interest in whether retrieval time varies with age. The data are given below. What can be concluded with an α of 0.05?

10 days old	20 days old	25 days old
16 11 26 16 21 19	31 16 21 26 24 23	56 26 41 34 36 31

Make an interpretation based on the results.

At least one of the rat pup ages differed on the mother retrieval time.None of the rat pup ages differed on the mother retrieval time.    

e) Conduct Tukey's Post Hoc Test for the following comparisons:
1 vs. 3: difference =  ; significant:  ---Select--- Yes No
1 vs. 2: difference =  ; significant:  ---Select--- Yes No

f) Conduct Scheffe's Post Hoc Test for the following comparisons:
1 vs. 2: test statistic =  ; significant:  ---Select--- Yes No
1 vs. 3: test statistic =  ; significant:  ---Select--- Yes No

Answer 1