1.

The variable of interest in an ANOVA procedure is called

a. a partition
b. a treatment
c. either a partition or a treatment
d. a factor
ANS: D

2. In the ANOVA, treatment refers to

a. experimental units
b. different levels of a factor
c. the dependent variable
d. applying antibiotic to a wound
ANS: B

3. The number of times each experimental condition is observed in a factorial design is known as
a. Partition
b. Replication
c. experimental condition
d. Factor
ANS: B
4. The mean square is the sum of squares divided by
a. the total number of observations
b. its corresponding degrees of freedom
c. its corresponding degrees of freedom minus one
d. None of these alternatives is correct.
ANS: B
5. The required condition for using an ANOVA procedure on data from several populations is that the
a. the selected samples are dependent on each other
b. sampled populations are all uniform
c. sampled populations have equal variances
d. sampled populations have equal means
ANS: C

6. In order to determine whether or not the means of two populations are equal,
a. a t test must be performed
b. an analysis of variance must be performed
c. either a t test or an analysis of variance can be performed
d. a chi-square test must be performed
ANS: C

7. In an analysis of variance, one estimate of is based upon the differences between the treatment means and the
a. means of each sample
b. overall sample mean
c. sum of observations
d. populations have equal means
ANS: B

Question 1
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In order to determine whether or not the means of two populations are equal,
 either a t test or an analysis of variance can be performed

Question 2
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In an analysis of variance, one estimate of s2 is based upon the differences between the treatment means and the

overall sample mean

Question 3
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The variable of interest in an ANOVA procedure is called

a factor

Question 4
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In factorial designs, the response produced when the treatments of one factor interact with the treatments of another
in influencing the response variable is known as

interaction

Question 5
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The process of allocating the total sum of squares and degrees of freedom is called
partitioning

Question 6
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The mean square is the sum of squares divided by

its corresponding degrees of freedom

Question 7
The required condition for using an ANOVA procedure on data from several populations is that the

sampled populations have equal variances

Question 8
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An experimental design where the experimental units are randomly assigned to the treatments is known as

completely randomized design

Question 9
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The F ratio in a completely randomized ANOVA is the ratio of

MSTR/MSE

Question 10
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In the analysis of variance procedure (ANOVA), "factor" refers to

the independent variable

In a regression analysis, the error term is a random variable with a mean or expected value of zero
The coefficient of determination cannot be negative
If the coefficient of determination is a positive value, then the coefficient of correlation can be either negative or
positive
In regression analysis, the model in the form is called regression model
The mathematical equation relating the independent variable to the expected value of the dependent variable; that is,
E(y) = 0 + 1x, is known as regression equation
The model developed from sample data that has the form of is known as estimated regression equation
In the following estimated regression equation b1 is the slope
In regression analysis, the unbiased estimate of the variance is mean square error
The interval estimate of the mean value of y for a given value of x is confidence interval estimate
The interval estimate of an individual value of y for a given value of x is prediction interval estimate
The standard error is the square root of MSE
If only MSE is known, you can compute the standard error
The value of the coefficient of correlation (R) can be equal to the value of the coefficient of determination
(R2)
In a regression analysis the standard error is determined to be 4. In this situation the MSE is 16
In regression analysis, which of the following is not a required assumption about the error term ? The expected
value of the error term is one.
A regression analysis between sales (Y in $1000) and advertising (X in dollars) resulted in the following equation
= 30,000 + 4 X
The above equation implies that an increase of $1 in advertising is associated with an increase of $4,000 in sales
Regression analysis is a statistical procedure for developing a mathematical equation that describes how one
dependent and one or more independent variables are related
In a simple regression analysis (where Y is a dependent and X an independent variable), if the Y intercept is
positive, then None of these alternatives is correct.
In regression analysis, the variable that is being predicted is the dependent variable
The equation that describes how the dependent variable (y) is related to the independent variable (x) is called
the regression model
In regression analysis, the independent variable is used to predict the dependent variable
Larger values of r2 imply that the observations are more closely grouped about the least squares line
In a regression analysis, the coefficient of determination is 0.4225. The coefficient of correlation in this situation is
0.65
regression analysis, the coefficient of correlation is 0.16. The coefficient of determination in this situation is
0.0256
In simple linear regression analysis, which of the following is not true? The F test and the t test may or may not
yield the same conclusion.
Correlation analysis is used to determine the strength of the relationship between the dependent and the
independent variables
In a regression and correlation analysis if r2 = 1, then SSE must be equal to zero
In a regression and correlation analysis if r2 = 1, then SSR = SST
In a regression analysis, the regression equation is given by y = 12 - 6x. If SSE = 510 and SST = 1000, then the
coefficient of correlation is -0.7
In a regression analysis if SSE = 200 and SSR = 300, then the coefficient of determination is 0.6000
If the coefficient of determination is equal to 1, then the coefficient of correlation can be either -1 or +1
In a regression analysis, the variable that is being predicted is the dependent variable
Regression analysis was applied between demand for a product (Y) and the price of the product (X), and the
following estimated regression equation was obtained.
= 120 - 10 X decease by 20 units
The coefficient of correlation is the square root of the coefficient of determination
If the coefficient of correlation is a positive value, then the regression equation must have a positive slope
If the coefficient of correlation is 0.8, the percentage of variation in the dependent variable explained by the
variation in the independent variable is 64%
In regression and correlation analysis, if SSE and SST are known, then with this information the coefficient of
determination can be computed
In regression analysis, if the independent variable is measured in pounds, the dependent variable can be any units
If there is a very weak correlation between two variables, then the coefficient of determination must be None of
these alternatives is correct.
SSE can never be larger than SST
If the coefficient of correlation is -0.4, then the slope of the regression line must be negative
If the coefficient of correlation is a negative value, then the coefficient of determination must be positive
It is possible for the coefficient of determination to be less than one
If two variables, x and y, have a strong linear relationship, then there may or may not be any causal
relationship between x and y
If the coefficient of determination is 0.81, the coefficient of correlation could be either + 0.9 or - 0.9
A least squares regression line may be used to predict a value of y if the corresponding x value is given
If all the points of a scatter diagram lie on the least squares regression line, then the coefficient of determination for
these variables based on these data is 1
If a data set has SSR = 400 and SSE = 100, then the coefficient of determination is 0.80
Compared to the confidence interval estimate for a particular value of y (in a linear regression model), the interval
estimate for an average value of y will be narrower
A regression analysis between sales (in $1000) and price (in dollars) resulted in the following equation
= 60 - 8X
The above equation implies that an increase of $1 in price is associated with a decrease of $8000 in sales
In a regression analysis if SST = 500 and SSE = 300, then the coefficient of determination is 0.40
$100) and the following regression function was obtained.
= 500 + 4 X
Based on the above estimated regression line if advertising is $10,000, then the point estimate for sales (in dollars) is
$900,000
The coefficient of correlation is the square root of the coefficient of determination
If the coefficient of correlation is 0.4, the percentage of variation in the dependent variable explained by the
variation in the independent variable is 16%.
In regression analysis if the dependent variable is measured in dollars, the independent variable can be any units
If there is a very strong correlation between two variables then the coefficient of determination must be None of
these alternatives is correct.
If the coefficient of correlation is 0.90, then the coefficient of determination must be 0.81
A regression analysis between demand (Y in 1000 units) and price (X in dollars) resulted in the following equation
= 9 - 3X
The above equation implies that if the price is increased by $1, the demand is expected to decrease by 3,000 units
In a regression analysis if SST = 4500 and SSE = 1575, then the coefficient of determination is 0.65
Regression analysis was applied between sales (in $10,000) and advertising (in $100) and the following regression
function was obtained.
= 50 + 8 X
Based on the above estimated regression line if advertising is $1,000, then the point estimate for sales (in dollars) is
$1,300,000
If the coefficient of correlation is a positive value, then the slope of the line must be positive
If the coefficient of determination is 0.9, the percentage of variation in the dependent variable explained by the
variation in the independent variable is 90%.
Regression analysis was applied between sales (Y in $1,000) and advertising (X in $100), and the following
estimated regression equation was obtained.
= 80 + 6.2 X
Based on the above estimated regression line, if advertising is $10,000, then the point estimate for sales (in dollars)
is $700,000
A population where each element of the population is assigned to one and only one of several classes or categories is
a Multinomial population
The sampling distribution for a goodness of fit test is the Chi-square distribution
A goodness of fit test is always conducted as a Upper-tail test
An important application of the chi-square distribution is Making inferences about a single population
variance; testing for goodness of fit; testing for the independence of two variables
The number of degrees of freed for the appropriate chi-square distribution in a test of independence is (number
of rows minus 1)*(number of columns minus 1)
In order not to violate the requirements necessary to use the chi-square distribution, each expected frequency in a
goodness of fit test must be At least 5
A statistical test conducted to determine whether to reject or not reject a hypothesized probability distribution for a
population is known as a Goodness of fit
The degrees of freedom for a contingency table with 12 rows and 12 columns is 121
The degrees of freedom of a contingency table with 6 rows and 3 columns is 10
The degrees of freedom for a contingency table with 10 rows and 11 columns is 90