An airline wants to select a computer software package for its reservation syste

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An airline wants to select a computer software package for its reservation system. Four software packages (1, 2, 3, and 4) are commercially available. The airline will choose the package that bumps the fewest mean number of passengers as possible during a month. An experiment is set up in which each package is used to make reservations for 5 randomly selected weeks. (A total of 20 weeks was included in the experiment.) The number of passengers bumped each week is given below. How should the data be analyzed? Package 1: 12, 14,9,11, 16 Package 2: 2, 4,7,3,1 Package 3: 10, 9, 6,10, 12 Package 4: 7, 6, 6,15, 12 1) 2) Ftest for differences in variances 3) One-way ANOVA Ftest 4) ttest for the mean difference t test for the differences in means

Explanation / Answer

Here we need to compare more than 2 sample means i.e. 4 sample means in the testing. Hence,

We will use One - Way ANOVA F - test.

Option 3 is correct.

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