Question

A physiological psychologist has performed an experiment to determine if a particular drug, smartozine, affects maze learning in rats. Three groups of 8 rats each are injected with one of three different doses of smartozine, while a fourth group of 6 rats is injected with a saline solution as a control. After the injection, rats in all four groups are timed in how long it takes them to learn to traverse a maze. The results of the experiment are presented below. Did smartozine affect how quickly the rats learned the maze. Use a level of significance of.05 SSB 610 SSW = 1742 What is the critical value of F for this situation?

Answer 1

Answer:

The critical value of F for this situation is 2.975.

Step-by-step explanation:

A test is being performed to determine if a particular drug, smartozine, affects maze learning in rats.

The groups are divided as follows:

• Three groups of 8 rats each are injected with one of three different doses of smartozine.
• The fourth group of 6 rats is injected with a saline solution as a control.

So, there were in total k = 4 groups with n = 30 rats.

The significance level of the test is, α = 0.05.

Compute the critical value of F as follows:

$F_{\alpha, (k-1, n-k)}=F_{0.05, (4-1, 30-4)}=F_{0.05, (3,26)}=2.975$

*Use the F-table.

Thus, the critical value of F for this situation is 2.975.