The monthly, seasonally-adjusted Consumer Price Index for four sectors—Energy, Apparel, Education, and Food and Beverages—was recorded from 2014 to 2018. MegaStat was used to perform a two-factor ANOVA, with α = .05. Study the output from that analysis and answer the following questions. a. Calculate the decision rules, including the critical F values, for each main effect and the interaction. b. Is there a significant interaction? Explain your reasoning using the decision rule from part (a) and the MegaStat output. c. Are any main effects significant? Explain your reasoning using the decision rules from part (a) and the MegaStat output. d. If there are significant main effects, what do the Tukey comparison tests tell you about the source of the significance? Interpret the analysis by stating specifically the source of any significance to find

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The monthly, seasonally-adjusted Consumer Price Index for four sectors—Energy, Apparel, Education, and Food and Beverages—was recorded from 2014 to 2018. MegaStat was used to perform a two-factor ANOVA, with α = .05. Study the output from that analysis and answer the following questions.

a. Calculate the decision rules, including the critical F values, for each main effect and the interaction.

b. Is there a significant interaction? Explain your reasoning using the decision rule from part (a) and the MegaStat output.

c. Are any main effects significant? Explain your reasoning using the decision rules from part (a) and the MegaStat output.

d. If there are significant main effects, what do the Tukey comparison tests tell you about the source of the significance? Interpret the analysis by stating specifically the source of any significance to find

 

 

Two factor ANOVA          
        Sector  
  Means:          
    Energy Apparel Education Food  
  JAN 212.1124 126.2470 243.2370 238.9554 205.1380
  FEB 211.1676 126.7068 243.8340 239.3318 205.2601
  MAR 210.6942 126.6212 244.3252 239.2382 205.2197
  APR 211.7020 126.5204 244.9062 239.5556 205.6711
  MAY 212.8016 126.5404 245.5254 239.6846 206.1380
Month JUN 214.9088 126.2178 246.1208 239.7886 206.7590
  JUL 213.4126 126.0226 246.6620 240.0132 206.5276
  AUG 214.0356 125.7544 247.2474 240.1632 206.8002
  SEP 213.1648 126.0730 247.8464 240.2852 206.8424
  OCT 212.2430 126.0326 248.4504 240.2388 206.7412
  NOV 210.5130 125.8722 249.0602 240.1108 206.3891
  DEC 207.2458 125.5746 249.6152 240.3108 205.6866
    212.0001 126.1819 246.4025 239.8064 206.0977
             
  5 replications per cell        
             
ANOVA table            
Source SS    df MS F    p-value  
Month 98.30735 11 8.937032 0.06 1.0000  
Sector 550,927.33678 3 183,642.445593 1242.27 1.94E-125  
Interaction 382.41549 33 11.588348 0.08 1.0000  
Error 28,383.08810 192 147.828584      
Total 579,791.14772 239        
             
Post hoc analysis          
p-values for pairwise t-tests for Factor 2        
    Apparel Energy Food Education  
    126.1819 212.0001 239.8064 246.4025  
Apparel 126.1819          
Energy 212.0001 1.55E-92        
Food 239.8064 7.34E-114 1.06E-26      
Education 246.4025 2.91E-118 1.14E-35 .0033    
             
             
Tukey simultaneous comparison t-values (d.f. = 192)        
    Apparel Energy Food Education  
    126.1819 212.0001 239.8064 246.4025  
Apparel 126.1819          
Energy 212.0001 38.66        
Food 239.8064 51.19 12.53      
Education 246.4025 54.16 15.50 2.97    
             
               critical values for experimentwise error rate:        
    0.05 2.60      
    0.01 3.18      
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