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One-Way Analysis
of Variance
E N A J E, S H A N A M A R I S SE E . M AG POC , M AV ERI C K M .
L A BAO, J E R Z ET H K AT E A . R OX A S, R I A F R A NC ESC A M .
4-BIO9
Problem Set A
A marine biologist in charge of four marine reserves located on a small
island noticed that one of the marine reserves (Area ‘A’) was twice the size
of the other areas (‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘D’). Considering that all other aspects of the
marine reserves were equal except for size, the biologist wanted to find
out if the size of the marine reserve had an effect on the
overall size of fish species living within them. To test this, he
designated a single fish species Acanthurus olivaceous as the test species,
and collected 10 specimens of this fish in each of the four marine reserves.
He measured each fish (cm) and tabulated the data below.
Problem Set A
Area A: (78, 88, 87, 88, 83, 82, 81, 80, 80, 89)
Area B: (78, 78, 83, 81, 78, 81, 81, 82, 76, 76)
Area C: (79, 73, 79, 75, 77, 78, 80, 78, 83, 84)
Area D: (77, 69, 75, 70, 74, 83, 80, 75, 76, 75)
One-Way Analysis of Variance
(ANOVA)
Determines whether there are any statistically
significant differences between the means of
three or more independent groups
78 78 79 77
88 78 73 69
87 83 79 75
88 81 75 70
83 78 77 74
82 81 78 83
81 81 80 80
80 82 78 75
80 76 83 76
89 76 84 75
X
83.6 79.4 78.6 75.4
x̅
79.25
Conclusion:
Tukey’s Method
method used in which the difference
between pairs of mean is determined
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Mean differences