Submit your answers to the following questions
using the ANOVA source table below. The table depicts a two-way ANOVA in
which gender has two groups (male and female), marital status has three
groups (married, single never married, divorced), and the means refer
to happiness scores (n = 100):
a. What is/are the independent variable(s)? What is/are the dependent variable(s)?
a. What is/are the independent variable(s)? What is/are the dependent variable(s)?
b. What would be an appropriate null hypothesis? Alternate hypothesis?
c. What are the degrees of freedom for 1) gender,
2) marital status, 3) interaction between gender and marital status, and
4) error or within variance?
d. Calculate the mean square for 1) gender, 2)
marital status, 3) interaction between gender and marital status, and 4)
error or within variance.
e. Calculate the F ratio for 1) gender, 2) marital status, and 3) interaction between gender and marital status.
f. Identify the critical Fs at alpha = .05 for 1)
gender, 2) marital status, and 3) interaction between gender and marital
status.
g. If alpha is set at .05, what conclusions can you make?