Question

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a type of depression during seasons with less daylight (e.g., winter months). One therapy for SAD is phototherapy, which is increased exposure to light used to improve mood. A researcher tests this therapy by exposing a sample of patients with SAD to different intensities of light (low, medium, high) in a light box, either in the morning or at night (these are the times thought to be most effective for light therapy). All participants rated their mood following this therapy on a scale from 1 (poor mood) to 9 (improved mood). The hypothetical results are given in the following table.

		Light Intensity
		Low	Medium	High
Time of Day	Morning	5	5	7
		6	6	8
		4	4	6
		7	7	9
		4	9	5
		6	8	8
	Night	5	6	9
		7	8	7
		6	7	6
		7	4	8
		4	9	7
		3	8	6

(a) Complete the F-table and make a decision to retain or reject the null hypothesis for each hypothesis test. (Round your answers to two decimal places. Assume experimentwise alpha equal to 0.05.)

Source of Variation	SS	df	MS	F
Time of day
Intensity
Time of day × Intensity
Error
Total

State the decision for the main effect of the time of day.

Retain the null hypothesis.

Reject the null hypothesis.    

State the decision for the main effect of intensity.

Retain the null hypothesis.

Reject the null hypothesis.    

State the decision for the interaction effect.

Retain the null hypothesis.

Reject the null hypothesis.    

(b) Compute Tukey's HSD to analyze the significant main effect.

The critical value is ___ for each pairwise comparison.

Summarize the results for this test using APA format.

(please help with this last part, too! I have been struggling with it this whole week!)

Answer 1

Answer:

Given Data

a)

Source of	SS	df	MS	F
Variation
Time of day	0.69	1	0.69	0.29
Intensity	18.06	2	9.03	3.72
Time of day * Intensity	1.39	2	0.69	0.29
Error	72.83	30	2.43
Total	92.97	35

b)

Level of significance	0.05
no . of treatments , k	3
DF error = N-k	30
MSE	2.428
q statistic value	3.49

Population mean difference	Critical value	lower limit	upper limit	result
	-1.25	1.57	-2.82	0.32	means are not different
	-1.67	1.57	-3.24	-0.10	means are different
	-0.42	1.57	-1.99	1.15	means are not different