Exercise 11
What demographic variables were measured at least at the interval level of measurement? (Grove 79)
Age, income, length of labour, return to work, and number of hours per working week were the demographic variables measured at the least interval f measurement.
What statistics were used to describe the length of labor in this study? Were these appropriate? (Grove 79)
Mean and standard deviation were used to describe the length of labor in the study. These were appropriate because mean (M) is used to calculate interval (and ratio) data, thus, the length of labor in interval data.
What other statistic could have been used to describe the length of labor? Provide a rationale for your answer. (Grove 79)
Sample variance could have also been used to describe the length of labor because it is the sample standard deviation squared.
Were the distributions of scores similar for the experimental and control groups for the length of labor? Provide a rationale for your answer. (Grove 79)
The standard deviation scores did not possess any significant difference because the standard deviation for the experimental group was 7.78 and 7.2 for the control group, so the difference was only 0.58. However, the difference in the mean for both groups were significant in that the mean for the experimental group was 14.63 and 12.79 for the control, which is a difference of 1.84. But based on the narrative from the study, the groups were not significantly different for any of the
The experiment conduct in this paper was prospective cohort study. The researchers goal was to determine if there was validity in the MBTI used as a major predictor is a good source. Kelly and Pulver wanted to see if there was any correlation to prove their hypothesis.
Statistics provides us with very useful tools and techniques that aide us in dealing with real world scenarios. I have been able to learn several useful concepts by studying statistics that can aide me in making rational and informed decisions that are supported by the analysis results. Statistics as a discipline is the application and development of various processes put in place to gather, interpret, and analyse the information. The quantification of biological, social, and scientific phenomenons, design and analysis of experiments and surveys, and application of
· How were measures of variation used in the study? What conclusions can you draw based on the variation?
and SD are _______________________ statistics. The mean is the measure of Central tendency of a distribution while SD is a measure of dispersion of its scores. Both X and SD is descriptive statistics.
Research results tell us information about data that has been collected. Within the data results, the author states the results are statistically significant, meaning that there is a relationship within either a positive and negative correlation. The M (Mean) of the data tells the average value of the results. The (SD) Standard Deviation is the variability of a set of data around the mean value in a distribution (Rosnow & Rosenthal, 2013).
2. What data and method does the author use to evaluate this intervention? Why was that data and method used?
“3. What other statistic could have been used to describe the length of labor? Provide a rationale for your answer.”
Since this is an if segment of my research, I thought of several other ideas as to which I could have done on this particular study. If there was a longer segment of time for
C. The researchers analyzed the data as though it were at the interval/ratio level since they calculated means (the measure of central tendency that is appropriate only for interval/ratio level data) and standard deviations (the measure of dispersion for interval/ratio data) to describe their study variables.
Age, Income, Length of labor, Return to work, and Number of hours working per week.
2. What statistics were used to describe the length of labor in this study? Were
4. Were the distributions of scores similar for the experimental and control groups for the length of labor? Provide a rationale for your answer.
2. What statistics were used to describe the length of labor in this study? Were these appropriate? The statistics used to describe the length of labor in this study descriptive, they were mean and standard deviation. These are appropriate as they both can be calculated at the interval level of measurement.
As numbers become more spread out from the mean, standard deviation gets larger. The standard deviation varied for all groups because of the skewness which makes standard deviation larger. By looking at the sample standard deviation we could conclude that there were variations among the group, due to the fact the there are kids who take part in zero activity as some in many.
There are a number of different variables that comprise demographic information. These include age, life cycle stage, gender, income, social class and lifestyle (Riley,