A pharmaceutical company wishes to study the consistency of the amount of active ingredient in one of its prescription liquid drugs (e.g. intravenous antibiotics). This drug is produced by two manufacturing plants, one in Connecticut and one in Virginia. At both plants, the liquid is manufactured in batches of the size to fill large vats. The vats are then shipped to the same packaging plant in Pennsylvania where they are subdivided and stored in barrels. From the barrels, the liquid is put into intravenous drip bags and sealed. Each drip bag is stamped with a code indicating from which plant, which vat, and which barrel it came. To examine the consistency of the amount of the active ingredient, an analyst randomly selected four different batches from each of the two plants, and then three barrels per batch. Three drip bags were taken from each barrel, and the strength of the active ingredient was measured (in parts per million, ppm). There are 72 observations total. This is a completely made up scenario, but the data (I am pretty sure) came from the exercises in: Neter, Kutner, Nachtsheim, and Wasserman (1996). Applied Linear Statistical Models, 4th Edition, Irwin Press, ISBN 0-256-11736-5.