Ends in "E"
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100
This type of avian raptor also starts with the letter "e."
What is an eagle?
100
Designing and analyzing experiments was pioneered during this roaring decade.
What is the 1920's?
100
The 10 minute version of this Taylor Swift song usurped American Pie to become the longest song in history to top the Billboard 100.
What is All Too Well?
100
This is what is thought to influence the response and is purposely varied throughout the experiment.
What is an experimental factor?
100
Sockeye is this type of fish.
What is salmon?
100
14times5-8times20+6-34div13
-86.615
200
In Avatar the Last Airbender, this type of food stand was often destroyed throughout the series, much to the dismay of its owner.
What is cabbage?
200
Sir Ronald Fisher pioneered the usage of experimental design in this field that led to coining the term split-plot designs.
What is agriculture?
200
Tukey's HSD test is for these types of comparisons.
What are pairwise (multiple)?
200
This is the repetition of a treatment combination in the experiment.
What is replication?
200
The Mariana Trench is the deepest point in this ocean.
What is Pacific?
200
The line "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries" is from what 1975 movie?
What is Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
300
This is the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world.
What is science?
300
This statistician developed the 3 key principles of design: randomization, replication, and blocking.
Who is (Sir) Ronald Fisher?
300
In the game of Magic the Gathering, this is considered the most valuable card.
What is the Black Lotus?
300
This is the combination of experimental factor levels for which the response will be measured or observed.
What is the treatment?
300
A cat with polydactylism has an unusual number of these appendages.
What are toes?
300
Based on the ANOVA table shown below, this is the conclusion drawn, against a significance level of \alpha=0.05 , relative to the null hypothesis.
What is reject?
400
This Central American country shares its border with Guatemala and Mexico.
What is Belize?
400
This statistician developed response surface methodology and recognized industrial experiments are different than those in agriculture.
Who is George Box?
400
This method tests the homogeneity of variances when the data cannot be assumed to be normally distributed.
What is Levene's Test?
400
When testing the normality of residuals assumption, these are the types of residuals which should be used.
What are studentized?
400
A merganser is this type of bird.
What is duck or diving bird?
400
The unicorn is the national animal of this European country.
What is Scotland?
500
In curling, this is the name of where the stones need to be thrown for scoring points, as shown in the following image.
What is the house?
500
In the "lady tasting tea" randomized experiment, Sir Ronald Fisher stated this can "never [be] proved or established, but is possibly disproved, in the course of experimentation."
What is the null hypothesis?
500
This vertical rock formation in Yosemite was the tallest to be climbed without ropes in the documentary Free Solo.
What is El Capitan?
500
y_(ij)=mu+tau_i+epsilon_(ij) is the simplest form of this type of model.
What is a fixed effects model?
500
Apiculture is the raising and caring of these creatures.
What are bees?
500
Based on the ANOVA table shown below, this is the conclusion drawn, against a significance level of \alpha=0.05 , relative to the null hypothesis.
What is reject?