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What are statistics and how are they used in the behavioral
sciences? Your answer should be 100 to 200 words.
Differentiate between descriptive and inferential statistics. What
information do they provide? What are their similarities and
differences? Your answer should be 250 to 400 words.
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For each of the tests of reliability and validity listed on the matrix,
prepare a 50- to 100-word description of the test’s application.
Describe what conditions these reliability types would be used for
as well as when they would be inappropriate. Then, for each test,
prepare a 50- to 100-word description of the strengths and a 50-
to 100-word description of the weaknesses.
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Part A
2. Compute the means for the following set of scores saved as Ch.
2 Data Set 3 using IBM® SPSS® Print out a copy of the output.
3. You are the manager of a fast food store. Part of your job is to
report which special is selling best to the boss at the end of each
day. Use your knowledge of descriptive statistics and write one
paragraph to let the boss know what happened today. Use the
following data. Do not use IBM® SPSS® software to compute the
statistics needed; rather, do it by hand. Include a copy of your
work
4. Suppose you are working with a data set that has some
different (much larger or much smaller than the rest of the data)
scores. What measure of central tendency would you use and why
5. For the following set of scores, compute the range, the unbiased
and the biased standard deviations, and the variance. Do the
exercise by hand
7. This practice problem uses the data contained in the file named
Ch. 3 Data Set 3. There are two variables in this data set
11. For each of the following, indicate whether you would use a
pie, line, or bar chart, and why
Part B
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Part A
Some questions in Part A require that you access data from
Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics. This data
is available on the student website under the Student Text
Resources link.
2.For the following set of scores, fill in the cells. The mean is 70
and the standard deviation is 8
Part B
Some questions in Part B require that you access data from Using
SPSS for Windows and Macintosh. This data is available on the
student website under the Student Text Resources link.
The data for Exercises 6 and 7 are in the data file named Lesson
20 Exercise File 1. Answer Exercises 6 and 7 based on the
following research problem:
Part C
How could you use standard scores and the standard distribution
to compare the reading scores of two students receiving special
reading resource help and one student in a standard classroom
who does not get special help
In a standard normal distribution: What does a z score of 1
represent?
What percent of cases fall between the mean and one standard
deviation above the mean?
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Would you agree that testing the significance of a result may lead
to faulty assumptions about accepting the null hypothesis?
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Part A
The average amount of time taken by white and brown rats to get
out of a maze
Blair is almost sure that his monthly costs for the past year are
not representative of his average monthly costs over the past 20
years
12. There were about 15 flu cases per week, this flu season, in the
Oshkosh school system. The weekly average for the entire state is
16 and the standard deviation, is 2.35. Are the kids in Oshkosh as
sick as the kids throughout the state
Part B
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PSYCH 625 Week 4 DQs
WEEK 4:
DQ 2: Let's take some time this week and look at some data that
is used to make up reports through the Anne E. Casey
Foundation. The Foundation published a document called Kid's
Count which is a collection of significant information about risk
factors for kids. Please go to the Foundation's website at
www.aecf.org, find the information for your state, review some of
the key data, tell us what you might use the data for and what are
some of the problems with the data, especially as you look at
census data atwww.census.gov Datafinder, in comparison to kids'
count data.
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Part A
1. Using the data in the file named Ch. 11 Data Set 2, test the
research hypothesis at the .05 level of significance that boys raise
their hands in class more often than girls. Do this practice
problem by hand using a calculator. What is your conclusion
regarding the research hypothesis? Remember to first decide
whether this is a one- or two-tailed test
2. Using the same data set (Ch. 11 Data Set 2), test the research
hypothesis at the .01 level of significance that there is a difference
between boys and girls in the number of times they raise their
hands in class. Do this practice problem by hand using a
calculator. What is your conclusion regarding the research
hypothesis? You used the same data for this problem as for
Question 1, but you have a different hypothesis (one is directional
and the other is nondirectional). How do the results differ and
why
5. Using the data in the file named Ch. 11 Data Set 3, test the null
hypothesis that urban and rural residents both have the same
attitude toward gun control. Use IBM® SPSS® software to
complete the analysis for this problem
11. Using the data in Ch. 13 Data Set 2 and the IBM® SPSS®
software, compute the F ratio for a comparison between the three
levels representing the average amount of time that swimmers
practice weekly (< 15, 15–25, and > 25 hours) with the outcome
variable being their time for the 100-yard freestyle. Does practice
time make a difference? Use the Options feature to obtain the
means for the groups
12. When would you use a factorial ANOVA rather than a simple
ANOVA to test the significance of the difference between the
averages of two or more groups
Part B
Some questions in Part B require that you access data from Using
SPSS for Windows and Macintosh. This data is available on the
student website under the Student Text Resources link.
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8. Use the following data set to answer the questions. Do this one
manually
Name two other predictors that you think might be related to the
development of Alzheimer’s disease
Some questions in Part B require that you access data from Using
SPSS for Windows and Macintosh. This data is available on the
student website under the Student Text Resources link. The data
for this exercise is in the data file named Lesson 33 Exercise File
1.
Correlation between the number of times they hit the bobo doll
and the number of times they struck a classmate
Part C
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