Week 5

Question 1

What is independence of observations

Answer 1

all participants in your sample are only counted once. No participant is counted multiple times in one group or counted in both groups. For example, your participants cannot have scores on statistics anxiety in the traditional age group and scores in the non-traditional age group. A participant might have multiple scores for different measures that are all linked to that one participant, but that one participant cannot provide multiple scores on the same measures that count as multiple participants

Question 2

What is the The Correlational Research Strategy

Answer 2

participants are assessed on their naturally occurring levels of the variables.

Question 3

What is the Pearson Correlation

Answer 3

The Pearson Correlation is part of a class of statistical analyses that are involved in describing relationships

Question 4

What is an ANOVA

Answer 4

In statistics, one-way analysis of variance is a technique that can be used to compare whether two sample’s means are significantly different or not.

Question 5

What is the The Chi Square Test of Independence

Answer 5

is appropriate when we have frequencies across categories on two categorical variables and we wish to determine if there is a relationship between these variable