A realtor wishes to assess whether a difference exists between home prices in three subdivisions.Independent samples of homes from each of the three subdivisions are obtained and their prices are recorded.The analysis of variance results for comparing these prices are provided below. Under the null hypothesis of equality of population means,what is the appropriate distribution for the test statistic?
A)F(2,15)
B)F(2,17)
C)N($\mu$,$\sigma$)
D)t(15)

Question

A realtor wishes to assess whether a difference exists between home prices in three subdivisions.Independent samples of homes from each of the three subdivisions are obtained and their prices are recorded.The analysis of variance results for comparing these prices are provided below.  Under the null hypothesis of equality of population means,what is the appropriate distribution for the test statistic?
A)F(2,15) 
B)F(2,17) 
C)N($\mu$,$\sigma$) 
D)t(15)

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The appropriate distribution for the test statistic is F distribution with degrees of freedom (2, 15) since we have three groups and are comparing their means.

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