Supplementary Exercise 12.25 of IPS7e ------------------------------------- A total of N=10+5+11+10=36 observations, and 4 groups. Model: X_ij are normally distributed N(mu_i,sigma) and independent. (a) Source of Degrees of Sum of Mean F P variation freedom squares square ----------------------------------------------------------------------- country 3 104,855.87 34952 15.86 <0.001 error 32 70,500.59 2203 ------------------------------------------------------- total 35 175,356.46 For calculation of the P-value, see (c) below. (b) H0: all (population) means are equal, and Ha: not H0, or some (population) means differ (c) Table F in PSLS (or Table E in IPS) gives the 99.9%-percentile of F(3,25), our best conservative approximation to F(3,32), as 7.45, corresponding to P<0.001. Using statistical software, we can determine the exact value in F(3,32) as P=1.7*10^-6, or 0.0000017. There is no need for all those decimals, so P<0.001 is perfectly fine as the stated P-value. We conclude there is strong evidence against the null hypothesis, or conversely evidence in favour of some means being different. (d) The pooled variance s_p^2 can always be read off the table as the MSE: s_p^2=2203, s_p =sqrt(2203) = 46.9