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The city of Tucson, Arizona, employs people to assess the value of homes for the

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Question

The city of Tucson, Arizona, employs people to assess the value of homes for the purpose of establishing real estate tax. The city manager sends each assessor to the same five homes and then compares the results. The information is given below, in thousands of dollars. Can we conclude that there is a difference in the assessors? Use the 0.05 significance level.

Is there a difference in the treatment means? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

Is there a difference in the block means? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

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Worksheet

The city of Tucson, Arizona, employs people to assess the value of homes for the purpose of establishing real estate tax. The city manager sends each assessor to the same five homes and then compares the results. The information is given below, in thousands of dollars. Can we conclude that there is a difference in the assessors? Use the 0.05 significance level.

Explanation / Answer

Result:

The city of Tucson, Arizona, employs people to assess the value of homes for the purpose of establishing real estate tax. The city manager sends each assessor to the same five homes and then compares the results. The information is given below, in thousands of dollars. Can we conclude that there is a difference in the assessors? Use the 0.05 significance level.

Home

Zawodny

Norman

Cingle

Holiday

A

55

54

47

44

B

50

54

54

57

C

45

59

43

55

D

77

65

64

62

E

81

83

99

84

a.

Is there a difference in the treatment means? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

The computed F value is 0.11 .

Decision: There is not a difference in the treatment means.

b.

Is there a difference in the block means? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

The computed F is 19.13 .

Decision: There is a difference in the block means.

Randomized blocks ANOVA

Mean

n

Std. Dev

61.600

5

16.334

Zawodny

63.000

5

12.062

Norman

61.400

5

22.479

Cingle

60.400

5

14.741

Holiday

50.000

4

5.354

A

53.750

4

2.872

B

50.500

4

7.724

C

67.000

4

6.782

D

86.750

4

8.261

E

61.600

20

15.486

Total

ANOVA table

Source

SS

   df

MS

F

   p-value

Treatments

17.20

3

5.733

0.11

0.9515

Blocks

3,924.30

4

981.075

19.13

0.0000

Error

615.30

12

51.275

Total

4,556.80

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The city of Tucson, Arizona, employs people to assess the value of homes for the purpose of establishing real estate tax. The city manager sends each assessor to the same five homes and then compares the results. The information is given below, in thousands of dollars. Can we conclude that there is a difference in the assessors? Use the 0.05 significance level.

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