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A pharmaceutical manufacturer wants to investigate the bioactivity of a new drug. A completely randomized single-factor experiment was conducted with three dosage levels, and the following results were obtained. Use R to run ANOVA to test if the dosage has some effects or not.
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Dosage |
Observations |
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|
20g |
24 |
28 |
37 |
30 |
|
30g |
37 |
44 |
31 |
35 |
|
40g |
42 |
47 |
52 |
38 |
a. Find the test statistic.
b. Find the p-value (Please input a decimal value. Please input 0 or 0.0001 if it is smaller than 0.0001 ) .

| Anova: Single Factor | ||||||
| SUMMARY | ||||||
| Groups | Count | Sum | Average | Variance | ||
| Column 1 | 4 | 119 | 29.75 | 29.58333 | ||
| Column 2 | 4 | 147 | 36.75 | 29.58333 | ||
| Column 3 | 4 | 179 | 44.75 | 36.91667 | ||
| ANOVA | ||||||
| Source of Variation | SS | df | MS | F | P-value | F crit |
| Between Groups | 450.6667 | 2 | 225.3333 | 7.0356 | 0.0145 | 4.2565 |
| Within Groups | 288.25 | 9 | 32.0278 | |||
| Total | 738.9167 | 11 | ||||
the p-value for this ANOVA rounded to 6 decimal places is 0.014464.