PSYC 300B Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Standard Score, Descriptive Statistics, Contingency Table
9 Apr 2018
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Psyc 300b - chapter 12: analysis of frequency data: frequency data when data are tallies or frequency counts: They are qualitative & represent a nominal scale of measurement. Statistical tests used are called non-parametric tests because their descriptive statistics are not used to estimate population parameters. The choice of the statistical test used to analyze the data depends on: sample size type of research design (i) (ii) (iii) model of hypothesis testing: statistical tests for each model of hypothesis testing: Nt = the total number of responses (tallies) (iv) tests are non-parametric no population parameters are estimated (v) Compare the observed distribution of frequencies against the expected distribution of frequencies: chi square ( ) statistic: the best known & most utilized option for the analysis of tallies which can be used with all 3 design options. Applied to random sampling model of hypothesis testing.
