Question

A Kruskal-Wallis test is conducted on and experiment that was testing three different levels of a fertilizer on the growth of the same variety of tomatoes. Site 1 received no fertilizer, Site 2 received low levels of fertilizer, Site 3 received high levels of fertilizer. All sites were treated identically in terms of the amount they are watered, time of planting, etc. A random sample of 9 mature tomatoes is selected from each site. The weights are recorded.

The output is given below. At a significance level of 0.15, what is your decision and interpretation?

Kruskal-Wallis Test: Weight versus Fertilizer Level

Descriptive Statistics

Fertilizer Level	N	Median	Mean Rank	Z-Value
HIGH	9	5	13.5	-0.23
LOW	9	7	17.6	1.67
NO	9	5	10.9	-1.44
Overall	27		14.0

Test

Null hypothesis	H₀: All medians are equal
Alternative hypothesis	H₁: At least one median is different

Method	DF	H-Value	P-Value
Not adjusted for ties	2	3.28	0.194
Adjusted for ties	2	3.41	0.182

Group of answer choices

Fail to Reject Ho, because there is enough evidence to say the levels of fertilizers do matter.

Fail to Reject Ho, because there is not enough evidence to say the level of fertilizer matters.

Fail to Reject Ho, there is enough evidence to say that the level of fertilizer matters.

Fail to Reject Ho, there is not enough evidence to say the level of fertilizer matters.

Answer 1

Answer :

A Kruskal-Wallis test :

Hypothesis :

Null hypothesis

H₀: All medians are equal.

Alternative hypothesis

H₁: At least one median is different.

Analysis :

	DF	H-Value	P-Value
Not adjusted for ties	2	3.28	0.194
Adjusted for ties	2	3.41	0.182

Interpretation:

Here test statistic=H are10.432 and 3.41

and

p-values > level of significance ( 0.15 ), we accept H0 at 0.15  level of significance.

That is , Fail to Reject Ho, there is enough evidence to say that the level of fertilizer matters.

Result:

The independent variables on dependent variable  represent population with equal medians.