. To find out whether the inhabitants of two South Pacific islands may be regarded a having the same racial ancestry, an anthropologist determines the cephalic in- dices of six adult males for island 1 and eight adult males for island 2, getting x¯1 = 77.4 and x¯2 = 72.2 and the corresponding standard deviations s1 = 3.3 and s2 = 2.1. (a) Test whether the equal variance assumption is reasonable at the 0.02 level of significance.

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1. To find out whether the inhabitants of two South Pacific islands may be regarded
a having the same racial ancestry, an anthropologist determines the cephalic in-
dices of six adult males for island 1 and eight adult males for island 2, getting
x¯1 = 77.4 and x¯2 = 72.2 and the corresponding standard deviations s1 = 3.3 and
s2 = 2.1.
(a) Test whether the equal variance assumption is reasonable at the 0.02
level of significance. 

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