Potential violation of one of the independence assumptions

Reference no: EM131011996

In each of the following data problems there is some potential violation of one of the independence assumptions. State whether there is a cluster effect or serial correlation, and whether the questionable assumption is the independence within groups or the independence between groups.

(a) Researchers interested in learning the effects of speed limits on traffic accidents recorded the number of accidents per year for each of 10 consecutive years on roads in a state with speed limits of 90 km/h. They also recorded the number of accidents for the next 7 years on the same roads after the speed limit had been increased to 110 km/hr. The two groups of measurements are the number of accidents per year for those years under study. (Notice that there is also a potential confounding variable here!)

(b) Researchers collected intelligence test scores on twins, one of whom was raised by the natural parents and one of whom was raised by foster parents. The data set consists of test scores for the two groups, boys raised by their natural parents and boys raised by foster parents.

(c) Researchers interested in investigating the effect of indoor pollution on respiratory health randomly select houses in a particular city. Each house is monitored for nitrogen dioxide concentration and categorized as being either high or low on the nitrogen dioxide scale. Each member of the household is measured for respiratory health in terms of breathing capacity. The data set consists of these measures of respiratory health for all individuals from houses with low nitrogen dioxide levels and all individuals from houses with high levels.

Reference no: EM131011996

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