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Chapter 12 - Statistical Analysis of Quantitative Data Flashcards

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Descriptive Statistics

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Used to synthesize and describe data

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Parameters

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When indexes (averages, percentages) are calculated with data from a population

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Statistic

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Descriptive index from a sample

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Inferential Statistics

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Used to help make inferences about the population

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Frequency distribution

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Systematic arrangement of values from lowest to highest, together with a count or percentage of how many times the data occurred

  • easy to see highest and lowest scores, most common scores, where data clusters, and how many patients were in the sample
  • can be displayed in a “frequency polygon” where scores are graphed on horizontal line and frequency on vertical line
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Symmetric Distribution

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occurs if, when folded over, the two halves of a frequency polygons would line up

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Positive Skew

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when the longer tail points to the right

–>ex. personal income

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Negative Skew

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when the longer tail points to the left

–>ex. age of death

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Unimodal vs. Multi-modal

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one peak vs. multiple peaks

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Normal distribution

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“bell-shaped curve”

  • symmetrical
  • unimodal
  • not very peaked

–>ex. height, intelligence

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Central Tendency

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measures of “typicalness”

  1. mode
  2. median
  3. mean
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Mode

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number that occurs most frequently in the distribution

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Median

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the point in a distribution that dived the scores in half, the middle point
-preferred when data is highly skewed

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Mean

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the sum of all values divided by the number of participants
“average”
-most stable index

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Variability

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how two distributions with identical means could differ in shape and how spread out the data is

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Range

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highest score minus the lowest score in a distribution

  • easy to compute
  • unstable
  • “gross descriptive index”
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Standard Deviation

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summarizes the AVERAGE amount of deviation of values from the mean

  • most widely used variability index
  • calculated based on every value in the distribution
  • 3 SDs above and below the mean in a normal/near normal distribution
  • lower SD = more homogeneous

+/- 1 SD: 68% of data
+/- 2 SD: 95% of data
+/- 3 SD: 99.7% of data

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Crosstabs (contingency) table

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Two-dimentional frequency distribution in which the frequencies of two variables are crosstabulated
–>ex. differentiating between men and women in categories of non-smoker, light smoker, and heavy smoker

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Correlation

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To what extent are two variables related to each other?

–>ex. anxiety scores and BP

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Correlation Coefficient

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calculation that describes intensity and direction of a relationship
-how “perfect” a relationship is (ex. tallest person also weighs the most)

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Positive Correlation

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when an increase in one variable lead to an increase in the other (.01 to 1.00)

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Negative (Inverse) Correlation

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when a decrease in one variable leads to an increase in the other (-.01 to -1.00)
–>ex. depression and self-esteem

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Pearson’s r

product-moment correlation coefficient

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computed with interval or ratio measurements
-no clear guidelines for interpretation

  1. descriptive: summarizes the magnitude an direction of a relationship between two variables
  2. inferential: tests hypotheses about population correlations
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Correlation Matrix

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variables are displayed in both rows and columns

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Absolute Risk

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the proportion of people who experienced an undesirable outcome in each group

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Absolute Risk Reduction Index

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comparison of the two risks

  • ->computed by subtracting the absolute risk for the exposed group from the absolute risk for the unexposed group
  • *it is the proportion of people who would be spared the undesirable outcome through exposure to an intervention/protective factor
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Odds Ratio

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proportion of people with the adverse outcome relative to those without it

–>ex. those who continued smoking DIVIDED BY those who stopped smoking with the intervention

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Inferential Statistics

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based on the “law of probability”

  • ->provide means for drawing conclusions about a population given the data from a sample
  • assume that the population has been randomly sampled
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Sampling Distribution of the Mean

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Thinking about what would happen if you could draw many samples according to the same research data and graph them
-would be able to plot multiple means to make sure they were equivalent

Not necessary because…

  1. sampling distributions of means are normally distributed
  2. the mean of a sampling distribution equals the original population mean
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Standard Error of the Mean

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the standard deviation of the error in the sample mean with respect to the true mean
-lower SEM = more accurate the mean is as an estimate of the population value

-larger population = less deviation from the mean

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Parameter Estimation

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used to estimate a population parameter

–>ex. a mean proportion or a mean difference between two groups

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Point estimation

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involves calculating a single statistic to estimate the parameter (ex. mean entrance exam score)
-convey no information about the estimate’s margin of error

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Interval estimation

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indicates a range of values within which the parameter has a specified probability of lying

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Confidence Interval

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establishes a range of values for the population value and the probability of being right

  • ->an estimate made with a certain degree of confidence (researchers usually use a 95% or 99% CI)
  • reflect how much risk researchers are wiling to take of being wrong - depends on the nature of the problem
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Confidence Limits

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Upper and lower levels of the confidence interval

-involves the SEM

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Hypothesis Testing

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uses objective criteria for deciding whether research hypotheses should be accepted as true or rejected as false
GOAL: use a sample to make inferences about a population
-assume the hypothesis is true and then gather evidence to disprove it

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Statistical Tests

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used to help reject null hypotheses

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Type I Error

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rejecting a null hypotheses that is, in fact, actually true

  • false positive conclusion
  • reducing Type I, increases Type II
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Typer II Error

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acceptance of a false null hypothesis

  • false negative conclusion
  • reduce by increasing sample size
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Level of Significance

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the probability of making a Type I error

  • does NOT mean important or meaningful
  • ->most frequently used levels (alpha) are .05 and .01
    ex. .05 level of significance = acceptance that a true null hypotheses would be rejected 5 times.
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Power Analysis

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estimation of the probability in committing a Type II error (beta)

Power: ability of a statistical test to detect true relationships/is the compliment of beta

-acceptable risk for Type II error is .20 (ideally use a sample size that will give them a minimum power of .80)

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Test Statistic

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in hypothesis testing resetters use study data to compute a test statistic
-there is a theoretical distribution to establish probable and improbable values –> used to accept or reject the null hypothesis

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Parametric Statistics

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Use involves estimation of a parameter; assumes variables are normally distributed in the population; measurements are on interval/ratio scale.

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Nonparametric Statistics

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Use does not involve estimation of a parameter; measurements typically on nominal or ordinal scale; doesn’t assume normal distribution in the population

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Statistically Significant

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results are not likely to have been due to chance, at some specified level of probability

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Nonsignificant Result

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any observed difference/relationship could have been the result of chance fluctuation

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How to use hypothesis testing procedures:

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  1. select a test statistic
  2. specify the level of significance (usually .05)
  3. compute a test statistic - calculated based on collected data
  4. determine degrees of freedom - number of observations free to vary
  5. compare the test statistic to a theoretical value - significant or nonsignificant?
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p level

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Probability
–>anything greater than .05 indicates a nonsignificant relationship (NS) - could have occurred on the basis of change in more than 5/100 samples

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t-test

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used to test the significance of differences in two groups

  • ->can a significant portion of the variation be attributed to the IV?
  • uses group means, variability, and sample size
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Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)

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used to test mean group differences of 3 or more groups

  • sorts out the variability of an outcome variable into two components:
    1. variability due to the IV (experimental group status)
    2. variability due to all other sources (individual differences, measurement error)
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F-ratio

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the variation BETWEEN groups is contrasted with variation WITHIN groups

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Post Hoc Tests (multiple comparison procedures)

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used to isolate the differences between group means that are responsible for rejecting the overall ANOVA null hypothesis

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Repeated Measures ANOVA (RM-ANOVA)

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can be used when the mans being compared are means at different points in time (ex. mean BP at 2, 4, 6 hours post-op)

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Chi-Squared Test

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used to test hypotheses about the proportion of cases in different categories (ex. crosstabulation)
–>computed by summing the differences between the observed frequencies in each cell and expected frequencies (if there were no relationships between variables)

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Null Hypotheses

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there is NO relationship between two variables

population r = .00

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Effect Size Index

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estimates of the magnitude of effects of an “I” component on an “O” component in the PICO questions
-important because even small effects can be statistically significant

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d statistic

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Effect Size Index
–>summarizes the magnitude of differences in two means (ex. differences between experimental and control group means) on an outcome

  • d ≤ .20, small effect
  • d = .50, moderate effect
  • d ≥ .80, large effect
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Multivariate statistics

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analyses dealing with at least 3 variables simultaneously

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Multiple Regression

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To test the relationship between 2+ IVs and I DV OR to predict a DV from 2+ IVs
-outcome variables are interval or ratio level variables

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Multiple Correlation Coefficient (R)

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  • NO negative values, varies from .00 to 1.00

- ->shows the strength of the relationship between several IVs and and outcome (but NOT direction)

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R squared

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interpreted as the proportion of the variability in the outcome variable that is explained by the predictors
-used over R alone

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Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA)

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To test the difference between the means of 2+ groups while controlling for 1+ covariate

  • ->used to control confounding variables statistically - “equalize” the groups being compared
  • powerful, produce F statistics
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Multivariance Analysis of Variance (MANOVA)

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To test the difference between the means of 2+ groups for 2+ DVs simultaneously
-used to test the significance of differences between the means of two or more group son two or more outcome variables considered simultaneously

Ex. comparing the effect of two exercise regimens on HR and BP

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Logistic Regression

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To test eh relationship between 2+ IVs and 1 DV, to predict the probability of an event, to estimate relative risk

  • transforms the probability of an event occurring (ex. that a woman will practice breast self-examination or not) into its odds
  • odds ratio: factor by which change for a unit change in the predictors after controlling other predictors
  • ->yields CIs around the OR

–>ex. identifying various risk factors (parent edu, children’s use of computers) for childhood obesity (obese vs. not obese) in a sample of 1644 Korean children

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Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA)

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To test the difference between the means of 2+ groups for 2+ DVs simultaneously, while controlling 1+ covariate

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p < __ vs. p > __

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p : more than (results are NOT statistically significant)

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