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Example 2: Fabric Flammability Tests • Flammability tests were conducted on children’s sleep wear. The Vertical Semi-restrained Test was used, in which pieces of fabric were burned under controlled conditions. After the burning stopped, the length of the charred portion was measured and recorded. Random samples using the same material was obtained from each of 5 testing labs. Because the same fabric was used, the different labs should have obtained the same results. Is there sufficient evidence to support the claim that the mean lengths for the different labs are the same?
Conclusion • Reject at H (sub zero) < alpha • The evidence in the data is strong enough to suggest at least one of the mean charred lengths for the 5 labs is significantly different.
Example 2 - continued • Calculate Fisher LSD and use it to determine where the differences lie. • LSD = 0.471
No. 21 • K = 5; n = 7 N = 35
P-value • P-value = Fcdf(14.07,E99,4,30) • = .0000014 < alpha • Conclusion: Reject the null hypothesis
No. 24 • n1 = 12; n2 = 15; n3 = 20; N = 47
Randomized Block Design • Extraneous factors (other than the treatment that we are testing for) cause MSE to become large and so cause F = MSTR/MSE to become small which leads to a conclusion of ….. • We can control the source of some of this extraneous variation by removing it from the MSE. We can separate the extraneous effects of individual differences into BLOCKS to remove variation from MSE and give a clearer view of the differences in treatments
Completely Randomized Blocks • SSE ---- SSBL (blocks: variation due to operator differences) and SSE (other variation) • SST = SSTR + SSBL + SSE • Partition the total sum of squares into 3 parts:
Example 1 • An important factor in selecting software for word processing and database management systems is the time required to learn how to use the system. To evaluate three file management systems, a firm designed an experiment involving five word-processing operators. Since operator variability was believed to be a significant factor, each of the 5 operators were trained on each of the three systems. The data collected are times in hours and are given in the chart. Use a 5% significance level to test for any difference in the mean training times for the three systems.
Enter data into an N x 3 matrix [D] as • Obs. Factor Block • 16 1 1 • 16 2 1 • … • 22 3 5