In: Statistics and Probability
The makers of Country Boy Corn Flakes are thinking about changing the packaging of the cereal with the hope of improving sales. In an experiment, five stores of similar size in the same region sold Country Boy Corn Flakes in different-shaped containers for 2 weeks. Total packages sold are given in the following table. Using a 0.05 level of significance, shall we reject or fail to reject the hypothesis that the mean sales are the same, no matter which shape box is used?
Cube | Cylinder | Pyramid | Rectangle |
116 | 107 | 71 | 161 |
86 | 113 | 60 | 93 |
66 | 177 | 114 | 126 |
98 | 90 | 68 | 89 |
70 | 81 | 84 | 110 |
Classify the problem as being a Chi-square test of independence or homogeneity, Chi-square goodness-of-fit, Chi-square for testing or estimating σ2 or σ, F test for two variances, One-way ANOVA, or Two-way ANOVA, then perform the following.
(a) Find the sample test statistic
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(b) In the case of one-way ANOVA, make a summary table.
Source of Variation |
Sum of Squares |
Degrees of Freedom |
MS | F Ratio |
P Value | Test Decision |
Between groups |
Reject or Do not reject |
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Within groups |
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Total |
We will conduct a single factor ANOVA here since we have only one factor of interest here.
a)
The test statistic: F = 2.1579
b)
: at least one mean is different than the other
Significance level:
The P-value > 0.05, since the P-value is > significance level, we fail to reject the null hypothesis
We have no evidence to reject the claim that the mean sales are the same, no matter which shape box is used