Description
Use Hypothesis Testing and the data in the course materials folder to analyze the difference in milk production between California and Wisconsin from 1900 through 1995 and decide if there is a significant difference in production between the states. Please remember to:
- Develop a research question.
- Formulate both a numerical and verbal hypothesis statement regarding your research issue.
- What is the independent variable?
- What is the dependent variable?
- Select a level of significance.
- Identify the test statistic.
- Describe the results of your test, and explain how the findings from this hypothesis testing can be used to answer your research question.
- Compare leas week's findings with this analysis.
- Explain why two-factor ANOVA would have been a better statistic in analyzing this question.
https://www.lynda.com --ANOVA link
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Explanation & Answer
hello there, the milk production between California and Wisconsin in the excel attachment is from 1990 to 2005, yet in the question you require hypothesis testing for milk production between California and Wisconsin from 1900 through 1995. the question and data provided do not match. give clarification for that. thanks
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Running Head: Hypothesis Testing
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Hypothesis Testing
Institutional Affiliation
Date
Hypothesis Testing
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Research Question
Is there a significant difference in milk production between California and Wisconsin from 1990
through 1995?
Numerical and Verbal Hypothesis Statement.
Verbal Hypothesis;
H0: There is no significance difference in production between California and Wisconsin from
1990 through 1995
HA: There is significance difference in production between California and Wisconsin from 1990
through 1995
Numerical Hypothesis
H0: µ₁ = µ₂
HA: µ₁ ≠ µ₂
Independent Variable
The variable that is considered independent here is California and Wisconsin.
Dependent Variable
The difference in milk production between California and Wisconsin from 1990 through 1995 is
the dependent variable.
Level of Significance
The suitable level of significance for this sample statistic is; ∝=0.05.
Hypothesis Testing
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Test Statistic
When the population standard deviations are unknown we estimate them using the sample
variance.
The test statistic is given by;
Z=
𝑋₁−𝑋₂
𝜕₁²
𝜕₂²
√ +√
𝑛₁
𝑛₂
The mean difference = X1 – X2 = 1944-1916 = 28 (000,000 lbs.)
Z=
28
1912637
996997
√
+√
72
72
Z = 0.0996
This is a two tailed test with a sample size of 72 observations. The critical value will be;
−1.96 ≤Z≤ 1.96
Conclusion
Since the test statistic of 0.0996 lies within the critical region we I fail to reject the null
hypothesis. Therefore, we can conclude that the production in California and that of Wisconsin is
the same (Quinn & Keough, 2012).
Two-factor ANOVA
The reason why the two-factor ANOVA would have been a better test of statistic is that analysis
of variances first analyzes the variance within one sample and then analyzes the variance
between the two samples. This ensures that the mean in production between the periods in one
sample is fir...