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    The document describes an experiment conducted by a rental car company to investigate whether the type of car rented affects the length of the rental period. Data was collected over one week for 10 random contracts from each of 4 car types. An ANOVA test in Minitab found a p-value of 0.358, which is greater than the significance level of 0.05, so there is not enough evidence to conclude that car type affects rental length. A computer output for another ANOVA is given with blanks to fill in for degrees of freedom, sums of squares, mean squares, F value, and p-value range.

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    The document describes an experiment conducted by a rental car company to investigate whether the type of car rented affects the length of the rental period. Data was collected over one week for 10 random contracts from each of 4 car types. An ANOVA test in Minitab found a p-value of 0.358, which is greater than the significance level of 0.05, so there is not enough evidence to conclude that car type affects rental length. A computer output for another ANOVA is given with blanks to fill in for degrees of freedom, sums of squares, mean squares, F value, and p-value range.

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    The document describes an experiment conducted by a rental car company to investigate whether the type of car rented affects the length of the rental period. Data was collected over one week for 10 random contracts from each of 4 car types. An ANOVA test in Minitab found a p-value of 0.358, which is greater than the significance level of 0.05, so there is not enough evidence to conclude that car type affects rental length. A computer output for another ANOVA is given with blanks to fill in for degrees of freedom, sums of squares, mean squares, F value, and p-value range.

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    The document describes an experiment conducted by a rental car company to investigate whether the type of car rented affects the length of the rental period. Data was collected over one week for 10 random contracts from each of 4 car types. An ANOVA test in Minitab found a p-value of 0.358, which is greater than the significance level of 0.05, so there is not enough evidence to conclude that car type affects rental length. A computer output for another ANOVA is given with blanks to fill in for degrees of freedom, sums of squares, mean squares, F value, and p-value range.

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    The experiment investigated whether the type of car rented affects the length of the rental period. An ANOVA test was conducted and found no significant difference between car types (p=0.358>0.05).

    A rental car company wanted to investigate whether the type of car rented (sub-compact, compact, midsize, full-size) affected the length of the rental period.

    An ANOVA test was used to analyze the results. The p-value was found to be 0.358 which is greater than 0.05, so there was not enough evidence to say that the type of car affected the rental length.

    ETM 421*001 – Design of Experiments

    Homework 3
    Total Points: 5
    Spring 2019

    1. (5 points) A rental car company wants to investigate whether the type of car
    rented affects the length of the rental period. An experiment is run for one week
    at a particular location, and 10 rental contracts are selected at random for each car
    type. The results are shown in the following table.

    Type of Car Observations


    Sub-compact 4 6 4 8 7 6 4 3 2 7
    Compact 2 4 5 8 6 7 4 3 2 8
    Midsize 5 2 4 6 8 2 3 5 3 8
    Full Size 4 6 8 6 11 4 5 8 3 8

    Is there evidence to support a claim that the type of car rented affects the length of
    the rental contract? Use α=0.05. Solve this problem using Minitab.

    Solution

    Using =0.05, is there evidence to support the claim that the car type does have an
    affect on the length of the rental contract?

    The results of the ANOVA test performed in Minitab were:

    Source DF SS MS F P
    Labels 3 16.68 5.56 1.11 0.358
    Error 36 180.30 5.01
    Total 39 196.98

    S = 2.238 R-Sq = 8.47% R-Sq(adj) = 0.84%

    Individual 95% CIs For Mean Based on


    Pooled StDev
    Level N Mean StDev --+---------+---------+---------+-------
    Compact 10 4.900 2.283 (----------*-----------)
    Full Size 10 6.300 2.452 (-----------*-----------)
    Midsize 10 4.600 2.221 (-----------*-----------)
    Sub-Compact 10 5.100 1.969 (-----------*-----------)
    --+---------+---------+---------+-------
    2.4 3.6 4.8 6.0

    Pooled StDev = 2.238


    p-value approach:
    From MINITAB output, the p-value is 0.358
    These results show that the p-value is greater than =0.05 and therefore there is not
    enough evidence to say that the means are not equal. In other words, there is not
    enough evidence to state that the type of car effects the rental contract.
    Moreover all the confidence intervals contain zero hence there are insignificant
    difference between the pairs of treatment means.

    Note: It is noted that since from ANOVA table it is observed that p-


    value=0.358>0.05, hence there is insignificant difference between the pairs of
    treatment means. Therefore it is not required to perform post hoc test. Post hoc test is
    making hence we ANOVA test reject the null hypothesis i.e. treatment means are all
    equal.

    2. (5 points) A computer ANOVA output is shown below. Fill in the blanks. You
    may give bounds on the P-value.

    One-way ANOVA
    Source DF SS MS F P
    Factor 3 36.15 ? ? ?
    Error ? ? ?
    Total 19 196.04

    Solution
    Error DF = Total DF - Factor DF = 19 -3 = 16

    Error SS = Total SS - Factor SS = 196.04 - 36.15 = 159.89

    Factor MS = Factor SS/Factor df = 36.15/3 = 12.05

    Error MS = Error SS/Error df = 159.89/16 = 9.993125

    F = Factor MS / Error MS = 1.205829

    Then, the p value may be found by using Excel: fdist(1.205829, 3, 16) = 0.3395

    One-way ANOVA
    Source DF SS MS F P
    Factor 3 36.15 12.05 1.20 0.3395
    Error 16 159.89 9.99
    Total 19 196.04

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