Name: Cascaro, Cyndi O.

2BSE-B1

You are investigating whether temperature has an effect on the perceived effort felt during an
exercise session. Twelve runners were recruited to run on a treadmill for 30 minutes under three
temperature conditions: 20C, 25C and 30C, done in a random order over three different days. At
the end of each run, the runners were asked to record how hard the running session felt on a scale
of 1 to 10, with 1 being easy and 10 extremely hard. Their results are shown on the table below.
Perform a Friedman test to determine if there are differences in perceived effort based on
temperature, using  = 0.05.

20C R1 25C R2 30C R3

Runner 1 6 1.5 6 1.5 8 3
Runner 2 5 1 7 2.5 7 2.5
Runner 3 6 1 7 2 9 3
Runner 4 5 1 8 2 9 3
Runner 5 8 2 8 2 8 2
Runner 6 5 1 7 2.5 7 2.5
Runner 7 8 1 10 2.5 10 2.5
Runner 8 3 1 4 2 5 3
Runner 9 9 1 10 2.5 10 2.5
Runner 10 6 1 8 2 9 3
Runner 11 7 1 9 2 10 3
Runner 12 8 2 7 1 9 3
ΣR1=14.5 ΣR2=24.5 ΣR3=33
Solution.

Null hypothesis: H0: 1 = 2= 3

Alternative hypothesis: H0: not all i are equal.

The sum of ranks for each condition is now computed, as follows.

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=12/12(3)(3+1) 14.52+24.52+332 - 3(12)(3+1)
=0.083 * 1899.5 – 144
=14.2917

𝑑𝑓 = 𝑘 − 1.

For df = 3 – 1 = 2, the tabled critical  = 0.05 chi-squared value is x20.05=5.99

Since 14.2917 >5.99, there is sufficient evidence to reject the null hypothesis at the 0.05 level of
significance