Introductory Statistics (10th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780321989178
Author: Neil A. Weiss
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter C.5, Problem 93E
In each of Exercises C.91–C.97, identify the following:
- a. the treatment factor
- b. the blocking factor
- c. the levels of each factor
- d. the number of treatments
- e. the number of blocks
- f. the experimental units
- g. the experimental factors, if any
- h. the classification factors, if any
- i. the fixed effect factors
- j. the random effect factors, if any
- k. whether the study is a designed experiment or an observational study
C.93 Penicillin Yields. In Statistics for Experimenters (New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1978), G. Box, W. Hunter, and J. Hunter describe an experiment to determine the effect on yield of four variants of a process for producing penicillin. A basic material in the production process, corn steep liquor, was known to be quite variable. Five blends of com steep liquor were obtained, and each blend was divided into four equal parts. The four process variants were randomly assigned to the four parts in each blend. The penicillin yields are given in the following table.
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