STAT2401: Assignment 2
• This ASSIGNMENT IS ASSESSED. It carries weight 15% towards your final mark
for the STAT2401 unit.
• Your work for this assignment must be submitted by 3:00pm on Friday 14th May
2021.
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and order:
Page 1 Questions 1, 2 (a) & 2 (b)
Page 2 Questions 2 (c) & 2 (d)
Page 3 Questions 2 (e)
Page 4 Questions 2 (f), 2 (g), 3 (a) & 3 (b)
Page 5 Questions 3 (c) & 3 (d)
Page 6 Questions 3 (e)
Page 7 Questions 3 (f) & 3 (g)
Page 8 Questions 4 (a), 4 (b), 4 (c) & 5
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STAT2401: Assignment 2
An Airway Experiment
This assignment aims to analyze a dataset. An experiment was carried out to examine differ-
ences in airway responses of individuals depending on the condition of the individual.
This experiment involved the taking of samples from deceased individuals lungs. Each individual
was categorised as either a control (group 1) subject (patient), a fatal asthma (group 2)
subject (patient), or a non-fatal asthma (group 3) subject (patient). 5 random samples per
subject (patient) were taken. The figure below illsurates the data structure
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The aim of the experiment was to compare the three groupings with respect to the response
measurement the perimeter of the airway basement membrane (peri-inter) (pbm). This experi-
ment is a nested design.
The data for this experiment can be found on the STAT2401 webpages and be read into R by
using the following commands:
dat = read.csv("ass2_data.csv",header=T)
Contact the lecturer immediately if you have difficulty accessing this data set.
We would like in this assignment for you to analyse this data under the nested design (with
transformation and without transformation on pbm). Find the instructions below and answer
all the questions.
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Instructions & Questions:
1. This is a nested design. Determine the random factor(s), the fixed factor(s), and the
response.
[3 Marks]
2. Analyze the orginal data, take the response to be pbm
(a) Give the boxplot of pbm against group.
[2 Marks]
(b) Comment on the boxplot given in question (a).
[2 Marks]
(c) The model for fitting the data is given by
Yijk︸ ︷︷ ︸
bpm
= µ︸ ︷︷ ︸
Overall
Mean
+ αi︸ ︷︷ ︸
Effect of
group i
+ βij︸ ︷︷ ︸
Random Error
patient within group
+ ijk︸ ︷︷ ︸
Random Error
for i = 1, . . . , 3, j = 1, . . . , 30, k = 1, . . . , 5. The µ and αi are fixed mean parameters.
βij and ijk are all independent, Normal random variables with mean 0 and variances
σ2β, and σ
2 respectively. Write down the R-code for fitting this ANOVA model.
[2 Marks]
(d) Fit the model in part (c) to the data and report the ANOVA table.
[2 Marks]
(e) To check the assumptions, we rather than fitting the model with a single error term
(One-way ANOVA model) and obtain the Overall Residual. Plot the followings
i. ”Overall” Residuals vs Fitted Values
ii. Standardized ”Overall” Residuals vs Fitted Values
iii. Q-Q plot for the Standardized ”Overall” Residuals
[3 Marks]
(f) Comment on the plots in part (e).
[2 Marks]
(g) Based on the ANOVA table presented in part (d), is the group factor significant?
[2 Marks]
3. Analyze the data with transformation, take the response be natural logarithm of perimeter
of the airway basement membrane, (log(pbm)), and repeat part 2(a)-2(g).
[15 Marks]
4. Following Question 3, answer the following questions
(a) What is the standard error of difference (SED) of Y¯1.. − Y¯2..?
[2 Marks]
(b) What is the least significant difference (LSD) of Y¯1.. − Y¯2..?
[2 Marks]
(c) Construct 95% C.I.s (use LSD without any adjustment) for the differences of all
group means (µ + α1) − (µ + α2), (µ + α1) − (µ + α3), and (µ + α2) − (µ + α3) in
this particular order.
[2 Marks]
5. Do all the groups have the same pbm? If not, which groups have the highest and lowest
pbm?
[2 Marks]
[Total: 41 Marks]
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