The U.S. Census Bureau collects data on monthly rents of newly completed apartments and publishes the results in Current Housing Reports. Independent random samples of newly completed apartments in the four U.S. regions yielded the data on monthly rents, in dollars, given on the WeissStats CD. At the 5% significance level, do the data provide sufficient evidence to conclude that a difference exists in mean monthly rents among newly completed apartments in the four U.S. regions?
Use the technology of your choice to
a. Conduct a one-way ANOVA test on the data.
b. Interpret your results from part (a).
c. Decide whether presuming that the assumptions of normal populations and equal population standard deviations are met is reasonable.