When conducting a hypothesis test for the difference between two means it’s essentially called a two sample t-test. According to Dr. Mirabella (2011, p. 5-2) states that, “In each case you can conduct a t-test for independent means to determine if a significant difference exists.” Furthermore, we’re conducting this test to see if there is an overlapping or if there is clearly a difference among the GPAs for men and women. In our case we are comparing the GPAs for a sample of men and a sample…
throughout the day, and work has been of poor quality. The purpose of the research is to find out why the staff is unhappy with their jobs, to lower the turnover rate, and make improvements to increase the job quality. The initial information supports the null hypothesis of the high employee attrition rate due to low employee morale. To further verify if the hypothesis is rejected or not rejected, the team analyzed the survey administered to the employees, and the instruments used for data…
should be a method to statistics. Not necessarily that it should be overly formalized or technical, but one with sound judgement. Abelson argues that good judgement with statistics in social science has been lost because there is considerable focus on null hypothesis testing (Abelson, 2). Statistical results that are shared should always be prefaced with a context and be provided with comparison groups. Also, it should never be the case for researchers to come up with an absolute conclusion once…
amount of to justify the increased operating costs. Acknowledged as the other opposite hypothesis, the null hypothesis is the rejection or disapproval of the other hypothesis. We work to come up with an alternate hypothesis that helps explains a phenomenon and then set out to disapprove the null hypothesis. The null hypotheses are not interrupted as a statement that is null itself. Instead, the null hypotheses are commonly assumed to be true pending data indicates…
Hypothesis test How to find the sample size for analytical studies and experiments? State the null and alternative hypothesis. Choose the statistical test based on the type of predictor and outcome variables. Choose an appropriate effect size. Set type 1 (alpha) and type 2 (beta) error. Use the appropriate table to to look for the corresponding sample size. Basic Concepts Hypotheses: Null and Alternative hypotheses People often look into statistical relationship through the test of…
Overall, I rate this article as a 4 out of 5. It is very well organized, presents samples and comparisons and is very well written. The only thing, I would change in this article would be the organization of the topics. For Example, The hypotheses, methods and procedures were placed at the end with the results. I believe the hypotheses, methods, and procedures would have been more effective placed at the beginning of the article before the presentation of the data that is broken up into sections…
The experiment discussed in this article set out to determine if conditions of high anxiety, increased sexual attraction. They hypothesized that males who come across an attractive female while experiencing a strong emotion such as fear will find the female more attractive than by males not experiencing a strong emotion, which is also the alternative hypothesis. The independent variable is a strong emotion such as fear. This was operationalized by participants being on an unsteady bridge that…
Table 4 90% Confidence Interval - proportion of all Rocky University students, all male students, and all female students who answered YES to abusing prescription medication or marijuana. ALL Students Who Abused Prescription Med. or Marijuana ALL MALES Who Abused Prescription Med. or Marijuana ALL FEMALES Who Abused Prescription Med. or Marijuana Proportion ALL Students 0.278 27.8% Proportion MALE Students 0.133 13.3% Proportion FEMALE Students 0.144 14.4% 90% LCL - ALL Students 0.200…
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This write-up focusses on three concepts of sound assessment practice namely reliability, feasibility and educational impact. Reliability Reliability refers to the ‘reproducibility’, ‘repeatability’ or ‘consistency’ of the scores obtained from an assessment (Memon et al, 2010; van der Vleuten et al, 2005). Reliability is generally expressed as a coefficient ranging from 0 (no reliability) to 1 (perfect reliability). Since it is difficult to achieve perfect reliability in any assessment, a…