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T-Test

The hypothesis or alternate hypothesis is usually hidden in a word problem, and is sometimes a statement of what you expect to happen in the experiment or a claim of what will happen. Null hypothesis is statement of what will happen if the hypothesis or alternate doesn’t come true. Null hypothesis is the opposite statement […]

Statistical Terms in Quantitative Research

Statistically significant means a result is unlikely due to chance. The p-value is the probability of obtaining the difference we saw from a sample (or a larger one) if there really isn’t a difference for all users. A conventional (and arbitrary) threshold for declaring statistical significance is a p-value of less than 0.05.  Statistical significance […]

Statistical Significant

To determine whether a result is statistically significant, a researcher would have to calculate a p-value, which is the probability of observing an effect given that the null hypothesis is true. The null hypothesis is rejected if the p-value is less than the significance or α level. Just because you get a low p-value and conclude a difference is […]

Statistical Significance vs correlation coefficient

A general discussion of significance tests for relationships between two continuous variables. Factors in relationships between two variables The strength of the relationship: is indicated by the correlation coefficient: r but is actually measured by the coefficient of determination: r2 The significance of the relationship is expressed in probability levels: p (e.g., significant at p =.05) This tells how unlikely a given correlation coefficient, r, will […]

ANOVA, Test of Homogeneity of Variances, Multiple Comparison and SPSS Calculations.

ANOVA R’s socioeconomic index (2010)    Sum of Squares df Mean Square F Sig. Between Groups 474058.682 4 118514.671 385.981 .000 Within Groups 743670.506 2422 307.048     Total 1217729.188 2426       Test of Homogeneity of Variances R’s socioeconomic index (2010)  Levene Statistic df1 df2 Sig. 23.938 4 2422 .000 Multiple Comparisons Dependent […]

Quantitative Study on Acquired Brain Injury

It is important to first understand what an acquired brain injury is. Acquired brain injury is a type of brain impairment that happens after birth, which is not connected to an inherited or worsening disease (Powell River Brain Injury Society, n.d.). Twenty-four community college study with acquired brain injury filled out questionnaires and other standardized […]

Descriptive Research Design/Quantitative Variables

Descriptive research design helps in gathering information that will display relationships between variables without changing the environment (U.S Department of Health and Human Services: The Office of Research Integrity, n.d.). The use of independent sample t-test is an appropriate choice for a study of t-test method that compares means of two groups of cases. When […]

Sample of Dataset to Construct Research Question, comparison of a means test- Using SPSS

Using the SPSS software, open the High School Longitudinal Study dataset found in this week’s Learning Resources and construct a research question that involves a comparison of a means test. Use SPSS to answer the research question you constructed and post your response to the following: What is your research question? My research question is: […]