Five-Step Hypothesis-Testing Procedure
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Describe a problem from your field of interest.
Generate a small data set with 3 or 4 categories, and 4 to 8 data entries per category.
Use Lind's usual five-step hypothesis-testing procedure.
Employ one-way ANOVA to make a sound decision for your proposed problem, using either MS Excel (Tools > Data Analysis > ANOVA: Single Factor) or the MegaStat plug-in for the math.
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Five-step hypothesis-testing procedure using MiniTab, MegaStat, SPSS and MS Excel is shown in the solution.
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