An industrial psychologist has examined the levelsof absenteeism (measured in terms of days absent per year) of workers in three different work environments (morning shift, afternoon shift, and night shift). The results of the study are summarized in the table below. For these data, please answer a-k below.

a) State your null hypothesis.

b) What are the values of each category mean?

c) What is the value of the grand mean?

d) What is the value of SSB?

e) What is the value of SSW?

f) What is the value of dfB?

g) What is the value of dfw?

h) What is the value of MSB?

i) What is the value of MSW?

j) What is the value of F?

k) Assuming you are working at the .05 level of significance, whatwould you conclude?

Day Shift Afternoon Shift Night Shift

3 6 5

4 4 6

3 5 4

5 4 3

7 missing 5