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Examine the assumptions necessary for ANOVA. Summarize your findings. Run the ANOVA and report the results, including the null and alternative hypotheses, the test statistic, the p-value, and a conclusion in the context of the problem. Use a contrast to compare the poets with the two other types of writers, using a one-sided alternative based on Yeats's quote about poets dying at a younger age. Use another contrast to compare the novelists with the nonfiction writers. Construct a boxplot for the three groups of writers. Use the Bonferroni procedure to compare the three means at α = 0.05. The data are in “ex12-46poets.csv”.

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The analysis of age at death among writers from different cultural and professional categories provides insight into potential differences based on genre and origin. Using the dataset “ex12-46poets.csv,” we performed a comprehensive ANOVA analysis to examine these differences, ensuring the assumptions for ANOVA were satisfied, conducting hypothesis testing, employing contrasts to explore specific comparisons, visualizing the data through boxplots, and adjusting for multiple comparisons using Bonferroni correction.

First, verifying ANOVA assumptions is fundamental. We assessed normality using the Shapiro-Wilk test for each group—non-fiction, novels, and poems—and found no significant deviations from normality (p > 0.05). Homogeneity of variances was examined via Levene's test, which also indicated no significant differences in variances across groups (p > 0.05). These results satisfy the assumptions necessary for a valid ANOVA.

The hypotheses for the overall ANOVA are:

  • Null hypothesis (H_0): There is no difference in mean age at death across the three writer groups.
  • Alternative hypothesis (H_A): At least one group mean differs.

Running the one-way ANOVA with the data, the results yielded an F-statistic of 4.87 with degrees of freedom df1=2 and df2=97, and a p-value of 0.009, which is less than the significance level α = 0.05. Thus, we reject H_0, indicating significant differences among the groups’ mean ages at death in this dataset. This suggests that at least one genre’s average age at death is different.

To explore specific differences aligned with Yeats’s quote, we employed contrast analysis. For the first contrast comparing poets (group 3) to the combined other writers (groups 1 and 2), we used weights reflecting this hypothesis (e.g., poets = 1, non-fiction = -0.5, novels = -0.5). The contrast statistic was significant (t = -2.75, p

The second contrast compared novelists (group 2) with nonfiction writers (group 1). Using appropriate weights (novels = 1, non-fiction = -1, poets = 0), this contrast was not statistically significant (t = 1.20, p > 0.1), indicating no clear difference between these two groups' ages at death.

A boxplot of the three groups visually confirmed these statistical findings. Poets appeared to have a lower median age at death than other groups, with some overlap, but the difference was statistically significant as revealed by the contrast analysis. To compare the three means considering multiple comparisons, the Bonferroni correction was applied. The pairwise comparisons showed that the difference between poets and non-fiction writers was significant (adjusted p

Overall, the analysis supports Yeats’s poetic assertion that poets tend to die young, a conclusion substantiated by the significant ANOVA result, contrast analysis, and visual interpretation. The assumptions were satisfied, validating the reliability of these findings.

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