Q1. In Minitab, create a boxplot of the GPA by seating position. Comment on any findings.

Stata commend: graph box gpa, over(seat)

F as in front, M as in middle, and B as in back, there seem to be tendency of seating X GPA relation

Q2. Produce summary statistics for each of the Seating positions. Comment on any findings.

Mean GPA is ordered as Front > Middle > Back

Q3. The following questions are for the hypotheses for this test.

a) (10 points) Indicate the null and alternative hypotheses for this test using mathematical
notation.
 b) b) (10 points) Indicate the null and alternative hypotheses for this test with words in the
context of the problem.

H0 : there is no differences of seating position in between seating positions

Ha: there is at least one differences of seating position in between seating positions

Q4. What are the assumptions to conduct this test? Using Minitab, verify if the assumptions of this test
are satisfied.

When conducting anova, the assumptions are :

1) each categories have normal distribution – each categories(f,m,b) has more than 30 samples

2) data are independent

3) each distributions have same variance –

Normality can be checked through Anderson-Darling Test

= fail to reject null hypothesis = data are normal distribution

Q5. Using Minitab, conduct the test with a significance level of 5% even if the assumptions were not
satisfied. You must include all relevant output.

I used STATA, for this analysis.

Q6. What is your conclusion in terms of the problem?

According to the result of Analysis of Variance, the null hypothesis states that the mean
gpa of 3 different seating positions are equal. Because the p-value is less than 0.0000,
which is less than the significance level of 0.05, we can reject the null hypothesis and
conclude that some of the seating positions have different mean of GPAs.
Q7. If the null hypothesis was rejected above, conduct any further steps necessary to find any additional
information about the mean GPAs for the seating positions.

After confirming the mean differences of GPA by their seating, we can conduct further
analysis to find where the differences. Result of Tukey analysis we can see all of F, M, B is
different from one another in terms of its mean GPA.