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Show all your work. Indicate clearly the methods you use, because you will be graded on the correctness of your
methods as well as on the accuracy and completeness of your results and explanations.
LT1.1
A cookie manufacturer is trying to determine how long cookies stay fresh on store shelves, and the extent to which
the type of packaging and the stores temperature influences how long the cookies stay fresh. He designs a
completely randomized experiment involving low (64 F) and high (75 F) temperatures and two types of
packagingplastic and waxed cardboard. List the
cookies
4. the treatments
b. Correct = E
Cookie freshness instead of time staying fresh = P
Incorrect = I
c. Correct = E
Incorrect = I
5. Agricultural scientists for a chemical company want to determine if a newly developed fertilizer produces
heavier tomatoes than the fertilizer they currently manufacture. For their study, they have 24 healthy young
tomato plants growing in individual pots.
a. Describe the design of a completely randomized, comparative experiment to test the whether the new fertilizer
produces heavier tomatoes. Make sure you explain a procedure for how you will select the tomatoes to receive
treatments.
HAT
Label the tomato plants with a unique number from 1 to 24 and write each
number on a slip of paper. Place the 24 papers in a hat and mix well. Draw 12
numbers (plants) from the hat without replacement and assign these 12 to
treatment with the new fertilizer. The remaining 12 numbers (plants) will be
assigned to the current fertilizer. After a reasonable period of time, harvest the
tomatoes, measure the tomato growth in the two fertilizer groups, and compare.
RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR
Label the tomato plants with a unique number from 1 to 24. Using a random
number generator, assign the first 12 numbers (plants) generated to treatment
with the new fertilizer. Ignore repeated numbers that are generated. The
remaining 12 numbers will be assigned to the current fertilizer. After a
reasonable period of time, harvest the tomatoes, measure the tomato growth in
the two fertilizer groups, and compare.
RANDOM DIGIT TABLE
Label the tomato plants with a unique number from 01 to 24 (or any sequence of
24 two-digit numbers). Using a random digit table, starting at any row, read 2
digits at a time. Ignore the two digits of 00, 25 to 99, and any repeats. The first 12
two-digit numbers within the range of 01 to 24 are selected for treatment with the
new fertilizer. The remaining 12 tomato plants are assigned the current fertilizer.
After a reasonable period of time, harvest the tomatoes, measure the tomato
growth in the two fertilizer groups, and compare.
b. Briefly explain how the 3 principles of experimental design are met in your design.
Randomization is met by randomly assigning tomatoes to treatments with a
procedure described above. Control (and comparison) is met by comparing the two
fertilizer groups. Replication is met by treating many units (12 tomato plants per
treatment).
LT1.2: 2 parts E, P, I
a. Four components:
4 = EE = Complete Response
3 = EP = Substantial Response
2 = EI, PP = Developing Response
1 = PI = Minimal Response
0 = II = No Credit