Conduct Analysis of Variance on the Randomized Complete Block Design
-A farmer has a 160 acre tract of land that he is planting in corn. He has heard about advances in fertilizer technology that impacts yield. He divides his field into four sections and each section into four parts. He has three type of fertilizer to test and no fertilizer. He randomly selects a part of a section and then randomly selects a type of fertilizer for that part of a section so that each section has all four applications applied to it. The yields in bushel per acres are given below. Test at $\alpha = 0.05$ if there is a difference in yields.
$\begin{array}{|l|c|c|c|c|}
\hline & \text { Field A } & \text { Field B } & \text { Field C } & \text { Field D } \
\hline \text { No fertilizer } & 5.7 & 10.4 & 7.3 & 9.0 \
\hline \text { Traditional } & 4.5 & 8.6 & 6.1 & 10.6 \
\hline \text { Liquid } & 4.1 & 6.3 & 5.8 & 7.2 \
\hline \text { Granular } & 2.6 & 7.2 & 4.6 & 8.7 \
\hline
\end{array}$

A) Fertilizer does result in significantly different yields.
B) Fertilizer does not result in significantly different yields.

Question

Conduct Analysis of Variance on the Randomized Complete Block Design
-A farmer has a 160 acre tract of land that he is planting in corn. He has heard about advances in fertilizer technology that impacts yield. He divides his field into four sections and each section into four parts. He has three type of fertilizer to test and no fertilizer. He randomly selects a part of a section and then randomly selects a type of fertilizer for that part of a section so that each section has all four applications applied to it. The yields in bushel per acres are given below. Test at $\alpha = 0.05$ if there is a difference in yields.
$\begin{array}{|l|c|c|c|c|}
\hline & \text { Field A } & \text { Field B } & \text { Field C } & \text { Field D } \
\hline \text { No fertilizer } & 5.7 & 10.4 & 7.3 & 9.0 \
\hline \text { Traditional } & 4.5 & 8.6 & 6.1 & 10.6 \
\hline \text { Liquid } & 4.1 & 6.3 & 5.8 & 7.2 \
\hline \text { Granular } & 2.6 & 7.2 & 4.6 & 8.7 \
\hline
\end{array}$

A) Fertilizer does result in significantly different yields.
B) Fertilizer does not result in significantly different yields.

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The analysis of variance (ANOVA) on the Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) would compare the means of the different fertilizer treatments (including no fertilizer) across the blocks (fields A, B, C, and D) to determine if there is a statistically significant difference in yields. Given the setup, each type of fertilizer, including no fertilizer, is applied in each block, allowing for the control of block effects (differences between fields) and focusing on the treatment effects (differences due to fertilizer type). Without performing the actual calculations here, the premise of the question suggests that after conducting ANOVA, if the p-value is less than the significance level ($\alpha = 0.05$), we would reject the null hypothesis (that there is no difference in means) and conclude that the type of fertilizer does indeed result in significantly different yields.

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Conduct Analysis of Variance on the Randomized Complete Block Design $\alpha = 0.05$