A professor compared differences in class grades between students in their freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years of college. If different participants were in each group, then what type of statistical design is appropriate for this study?

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Ciara Dyer

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15 April, 13:35

A professor compared differences in class grades between students in their freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years of college. If different participants were in each group, then what type of statistical design is appropriate for this study?

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Allan Townsend · Answer 1

A one-way between-subjects ANOVA

Explanation:

A one-way between-subjects ANOVA is a Type of test which is used in comparing two, three or more groups of partakers that are not related in any way whatsoever.

The groups of participants are autonomous and not depended on one another. So, a participant in one group will have no connection to participants in the other groups.

Spunky · Answer 2

a one-way between-subjects ANOVA

Explanation:

The one-way between-subjects ANOVA is considered or known to be a kind of test is used in comparing many groups of participants which are not related in any way.

In this case, the professor that were comparing different participants from different classes of the college was making use of a one-way between-subjects ANOVA.

It should be noted that, ANOVA means Analysis of variance. And it was made or developed by a renowned evolutionary biologist Ronald Fisher.