De La Salle University – Dasmariñas

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND COMPUTER STUDIES

MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT
City of Dasmariñas, Cavite

LABORATORY ACTIVITY
Designs of Experiment
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NAME: __________________________________ DATE: ____________________

COURSE/YEAR & SECTION: __________________ PROF.: ____________________

OBJECTIVES:

1. Correctly identify the experimental design for each given problem.

2. Solve each problem using SPSS.
3. Interpret the obtained result on each problem.

TASKS:

Do a complete hypothesis testing for the following problems. Do your analysis in SPSS then copy and
paste the OUTPUT after each problem. Submit in dropbox created for this.

1. In analyzing coal samples for ash content, two types of crucibles and three temperatures were used in
a complete factorial arrangement.

Perform the appropriate test at the 5% significance level. Does there appear to be a difference between
the two types of crucible with respect to average ash content?

  Crucible

Temperature Steel Silica

825 8.7 7.2 9.3 9.1

875 9.4 9.6 9.7 9.8

925 10.1 10.2 10.4 10.7

2. A chemist runs an experiment to study the effects of four treatments on the glass transition
temperature of a particular polymer compound. Raw material used to make this polymer is bought in
small batches. Therefore, each treatment was run on samples from each batch; with the results shown in
the table (temperature in K).

a. Do the data provide sufficient evidence to indicate a difference in mean temperature among the four
treatments?

b. Is there sufficient evidence to indicate a difference in the mean temperature among the three batches?

Treatment

Batch 1 2 3 4

1 576 584 562 543

 2 515 563 522 536

3 562 555 550 530

3. The yield percentage of a chemical process depends on the temperature at which the process is run and
the length of time the process is active. For two levels of temperature and two lengths of time, the yields
are listed in the table below: Perform an ANOVA for interaction. Is the interaction significant?

  Temperature

Time Low High

Low 24 28

45 30

High 26 23

28 22