Assignment (ANOVA)

1 Concerns about the increasing friction between some machine parts prompted an investigation
of four different types of ball bearings. Five different machines were available and each type of
ball bearing was tried in each machine. Given the observations on temperature, coded by
subtracting the smallest value,

Construct the analysis of variance table and test for differences among the bearings as well
machines using α = 0.01.

2 Four different, though supposedly equivalent, forms of a standardized reading achievement

test were given to each of 5 students, and the following are the scores which they obtained:
Students 1 Students 2 Students3 Students 4 Students 5
Form A 75 73 59 69 84
Form B 83 72 56 70 92
Form C 86 61 53 72 88
Form D 73 67 62 79 95

Perform an analysis of variance to test at the level of significance α = 0.01 whether it is

reasonable to treat the 4 forms as well as 5 students as equivalent.

3 A laboratory technician measures the breaking strength of each of 5 kinds of linen threads by
means of 4 different instruments and obtains the following results (in ounces):
I1 I2 I3 I4
Thread 1 20.6 20.7 20.0 21.4
Thread 2 24.7 26.5 27.1 24.3
Thread 3 25.2 23.4 21.6 23.9
Thread 4 24.5 21.5 23.6 25.2
Thread 5 19.3 21.5 22.2 20.6

Perform analysis of variance to test at the level of significance α = 0.01 that threads and
instruments are equivalent or not.

4 An Industrial Engineer tests 4 different shop-floor layouts by having each of 6 work crews
construct a subassembly and measuring the construction times (minutes) as follows:

Layou Layout Layou Layou

t1 2 t3 t4
 Crew A 48.2 53.1 51.2 58.6
Crew B 49.5 52.9 50.0 60.1
Crew C 50.7 56.8 49.9 62.4
Crew D 48.6 50.6 47.5 57.5
Crew E 47.1 51.8 49.1 55.3
Crew F 52.4 57.2 53.5 61.7

Test at the 0.01 level of significance whether the 4 floor layouts produce different assembly
times and whether some of the work crews are consistently faster in constructing this
subassembly than the others.

5 The following are the number of defectives produced by the 4 workers operating, in turn, 3
different machines. In each case, the first figure represents the number of defectives produced on
a Friday and the second figure represents the number of defectives produced on the following
Monday:
B1 B2 B3 B4
Machine A1 37,43 38,44 38,40 32,36
Machine A2 31,36 40,44 43,41 31,38
Machine A3 36,40 33,37 41,39 38,45

Perform two way ANOVA with interaction on above data. Use the level of significance α = 0.05.