An egg wholesaler wants to compare four methods of shipping…
An egg wholesaler wants to compare four methods of shipping eggs to determine which method results in the fewest broken eggs. Five lots of eggs are shipped using each of the four methods. The number of broken eggs in each lot is recorded and shown in the table below. The wholesaler wants to determine if the average number of broken eggs is the same for each shipping method. Therefore, he tests the null hypotheses using a 0.01 significance level. Shipping Method Sample lot no. A B C D 1 4 9 1 9 2 3 7 6 7 3 1 6 4 7 4 2 8 3 6 5 5 8 4 8 Total 15 38 18 37 Mean 3.0 7.6 3.6 7.4 What is the degrees of freedom for total, treatment, and error in the Analysis of Variance table?