Question

b. write each yield measurement from the table on an equal - sized piece of paper. place the pieces of paper in a bag, shake, and randomly choose 10 pieces of paper. call this the “control” group, and call the 10 pieces in the bag the “treatment” group. then repeat part (a) and return the pieces to the bag. perform this resampling experiment five times.

Explanation:

The problem is about conducting a resampling experiment. It starts with preparing the data (writing yield measurements on paper), then creating two groups (control and treatment) through random sampling from the bag. After that, an analysis (from part (a)) is repeated on these groups, followed by returning the samples to the bag and repeating the experiment multiple times. This type of experiment is often used in statistical inference, especially in the context of bootstrapping or permutation tests, to estimate the sampling distribution of a statistic.

Answer:

This is a description of a resampling experiment (likely for a statistics - related analysis). The steps would involve:

1. First, obtain the yield measurements from the relevant table (not provided here, but assume we have them). Write each measurement on an equal - sized piece of paper.
2. Put all these pieces of paper into a bag.
3. Randomly select 10 pieces from the bag. This selected group is the "control" group, and the remaining 10 pieces in the bag form the "treatment" group.
4. Repeat the process described in part (a) (which is also not provided, but presumably some analysis on the two groups like calculating a statistic such as the mean, median, or difference in means) with these two groups. Then, return the 10 pieces of paper to the bag.
5. Perform this entire resampling experiment (steps 3 - 4) five times.