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Accounting Today identified the top accounting firms in 10 geographic regions across the United States. Even though all 10 regions reported growth in 2014, the Capital, Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, and New England regions reported combined growths of 6.22%, 9.75%, 7.28%, and 6.84%, respectively. A characteristic description of the accounting firms in the Capital, Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, and New England regions included the number of partners in the firm.
The file AccountingPartners4 contains the number of partners. (Data extracted from 2015 Top 100 Firms, bit.ly/1BoMzsv.)
At the 0.05 level of significance, is there evidence of a difference among the Capital, Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, and New England region accounting firms with respect to the mean number of partners?
If the results in (a) indicate that it is appropriate to do so, use the Tukey-Kramer procedure to determine which regions differ in the mean number of partners. Discuss your findings.