Statistics Project, Part 3: Comparing Means
Statistics Project, Part 3: Comparing Means
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As you get closer to the final project in Week 6, you should have a better idea of the role of statistics in research. This week, you calculate your first inferential stats on your data set. You may calculate an independent t-test or a one-way ANOVA for the independent groups. Reading and interpreting the output correctly is highly important. Most people never see the actual output or data; they read the results statements by the researcher, so your summary must be accurate.
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Calculate the independent groups’ t-test or a one-way ANOVA.
Summarize the results of the calculation in 45 to 90 words.
PSYCH625WK2StatisticsProjectPart1ImportingDataintoIBMSPSSSoftware.doc
PSYCH625WK3StatisticsProjectPart2DescriptiveStatisticsandHypothesis.doc
PSYCH625WK2Dataset_Option_1.xls
Running head: Statistics Project, Part 1: Importing Data into IBM SPSS Software 1
Frequencies Table
| College | |||||||
| no college | some college | ||||||
| Caffeine | Caffeine | ||||||
| yes | no | yes | no | ||||
| Count | Count | Count | Count | ||||
| Gender | Male | Test Prep | no preparation | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| moderate preparation | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| high preparation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Female | Test Prep | no preparation | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| moderate preparation | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | |||
| high preparation | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| College | |||||||
| associate’s degree | bachelor’s degree | ||||||
| Caffeine | Caffeine | ||||||
| yes | no | yes | no | ||||
| Count | Count | Count | Count | ||||
| Gender | Male | Test Prep | no preparation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| moderate preparation | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||
| high preparation | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Female | Test Prep | no preparation | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| moderate preparation | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||
| high preparation | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
The number of males that had no preparation in the test took caffeine. Those who had moderate preparation only three did not take caffeine, which were one from some college, one from associate’s degree and one from bachelor’s degree. Majority of males had moderate preparation were under associates degree and bachelor’s degree and most took caffeine. There is a low number of males who had high preparations and majority of them took caffeine. Majority of females took caffeine and were highly prepared.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.