A health psychologist compared the effectiveness of three different programs to encourage people who have been prescribed high blood pressure medication to actually take their medication regularly. Twenty high blood pressure patients were randomly assigned to each condition (i.e., there were a total of 60 participants). The F cutoff is 3.17, S2between = 61.8, and S2within = 5. Based on these results, is there any difference in the effectiveness of the three programs? (Use the .01 level.) Use the five steps of hypothesis testing. Report the results of the ANOVA as seen in research articles. (see previous question for a reminder of the steps)

1. What is the null and research hypotheses?
2. What is the known/ needed information?
3. What is the cutoff sample score on the comparison distribution?
4. What is the test statistic on the comparison distribution?
5. Do you fail to reject or reject the null hypothesis? What is your conclusion?

* Report the results of the ANOVA as seen in research articles.

• Draw the distributions and label your critical regions (rejection regions).
• When making conclusions elaborate beyond that the study is inconclusive, or the research hypothesis is supported.
• Report the results of the ANOVA as seen in research articles.