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Given the following information obtained from four normally distributed populations, construct an ANOVA table and perform an ANOVA test of mean differences at the 5% significance level.
Given the following information obtained from four normally distributed populations, construct an ANOVA table and perform an ANOVA test of mean differences at the 5% significance level.





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SST= 70.47; SSTR= 11.34; c= 4; n, = n2= n3= N4= 15


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