The American Accounting Association recently conducted a study to compare the weekly wages of men and women employed in either the public or private sector of accounting. Random samples of five men and five women were selected in each group.

a. Draw an interaction plot of men and women means by sector.
b. Compute an ANOVA with statistical software and, using the .05 significance level, test the interaction effect of gender and sector on wages.
c. Based on your results in part (b), conduct the appropriate tests of hypotheses for differences in factor means.
d. Interpret the results in a briefreport.

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Sector Private Gender Men Public 978 1,035 964 996 1,117 $863 975 $1,335 1,167 1,236 1,317 1,192 $1,079 1,160 1,063 1,110 1,093 Women 1,019 1,037