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Question: Determining the degrees of freedom. For each part in Exercise, outline the ANOVA table, giving the sources of variation and the degrees of freedom.

Exercise: Identifying the factors of a two-way ANOVA model. For each of the following situations, identify both factors and the response variable. Also, state the number of levels for each factor (I and J ) and the total number of observations (N).

(a) A child psychologist is interested in studying how a child's percent of pretend play differs with gender and age (4, 8, and 12 months). There are 11 infants assigned to each cell of the experiment.

(b) Brewers malt is produced from germinating barley. A homebrewer wants to determine the best conditions to germinate the barley. A total of 30 lots of barley seed were equally and randomly assigned to 10 germination conditions. The conditions are combinations of the week after harvest (1, 3, 6, 9, or 12 weeks) and the amount of water used in the process (4 or 8 milliliters). The percent of seeds germinating is the outcome variable.

(c) The strength of concrete depends upon the formula used to prepare it. An experiment compares six different mixtures. Nine specimens of concrete are poured from each mixture. Three of these specimens are subjected to 0 cycles of freezing and thawing, three are subjected to 100 cycles, and three are subjected to 500 cycles. The strength of each specimen is then measured.

(d) A company wants to compare four different training programs for its new employees. Each of these programs takes 6 hours to complete. The training can be given for 6 hours on one day or for 3 hours on two consecutive days. The next 80 employees hired by the company will be the subjects for this study.