COMPUTATIONALMETHODANDSTATISTICS

MTH 2212
Dr Kartini Ahmad

AnalysisofVariance
(Criticalvalueapproach,Pvalueapproach,Minitab)

Prepared by:

Faten Nabillah Saharan 1221554

Nur Syafawati Binti Mahamad Rosi 1221416
(Section 5)

SAMPLE DATA

Fromthedataobtained,wetookarandomsampleof32countriesfor4
continents,8countriespercontinents.Wewanttotestthehypothesiswhetherthe
meanminimumworkinghoursperweekaredifferentforeverycontinentsatthelevel
significanceof0.05.Thefollowingarethesamplerandomlychosenbyourgroup.

Africa

Asia

Europe X

North
America

Algeria

40.0

Afghanistan

40.0

Austria

40.0

Bahamas

40.0

Cameroon

40.0

China

40.0

Belgium

38.0

Belize

45.0

Egypt

48.0

India

48.0

Czech
Republic

40.0

Canada

40.0

Ethiopia

48.0

Japan

40.0

Finland

40.0

Guatemala

48.0

Libya

40.0

SouthKorea 40.0

Germany

40.5

Haiti

48.0

Kenya

52.0

Malaysia

48.0

Ireland

39.0

Jamaica

40.0

Somalia

48.0

Saudi
Arabia

48.0

Italy

40.0

Mexico

48.0

South
Africa

45.0

Uzbekistan

40.0

United
Kingdom

38.2

United
States

40.0

source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_county


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OnewayANOVA:Africa,Asia,Europe,NorthAmerica

Method

NullhypothesisAllmeansareequal
AlternativehypothesisAtleastonemeanisdifferent
Significancelevel=0.05

Equalvarianceswereassumedfortheanalysis.

FactorInformation

FactorLevelsValues
Factor4Africa,Asia,Europe,NorthAmerica

AnalysisofVariance

SourceDFAdjSSAdjMSFValuePValue
Factor3138.146.043.310.034
Error28388.913.89
Total31527.0

ModelSummary

SRsqRsq(adj)Rsq(pred)
3.7269726.21%18.30%3.62%

Means

FactorNMeanStDev95%CI
Africa845.134.64(42.43,47.82)
Asia843.004.14(40.30,45.70)
Europe839.4620.940(36.763,42.162)
NorthAmerica843.634.00(40.93,46.32)

PooledStDev=3.72697

COMPARISON
Basedontheresultsobtainedfromthepvalueapproach,InoticethatIcannot
gettheexactpvalue.Ionlygettherange,whichis0.025<pvalue<0.05.Through
Minitab,wecanobtaintheexactvaluewhichis0.034.Thisshowthatmycalculationis
correctbutMinitabismoreaccurate.

Fromthecriticalvaluemethod,wegotthesameanswerastheMinitab.The
Minitabgot3.31andwegot3.3146.

Inconclusion,wecansaythetestisasucces.Thereisenoughevidenceto
supporttheclaimthatatleastonecontinentsmeanworkinghourisdifferentfromthe
others.