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DESCRIPTIV STATISTIC

E E X E R C ISS E S
ANNOUNCEMENTS
INTRODUCTIO
N
TO STATISTICS
REVIEW
•The Joy of Stats( 0– 6:00)
STATISTI
CS AND
PARAMET
•ERS
Statistics:
• Parameters:
• Descriptive statistics:
• Inferential statistics:
DESCRIPTIVE VERSUS
INFERENTIAL STATS
• Descriptive statistics: numbers designed to characterize some information in a data set.
• Inferential statistics: tools that help researchers draw conclusions about the probable
populations to which samples belong
WHAT ARE THESE
STATISTICAL
SYMBOLS/TERMS□
• Mean (M, X )
(KNOWLEDGE
• Median (me)
• Frequency
• Frequency distribution
• Mode (mo) • p-values
CHECK)
• n • Significance level
• Range • Correlation
• Standard deviation (sd or SD) • Correlation coefficient
• Variance (sd2 or SD2)
REVIEW OF FRE
QUENCYDIST
RIBUTIONS
STANDARD NORMAL
DISTRIBUTION
APPLICATION: CHEATING
SCANDAL IN UCF BUSINESS
SCHOOL A FEW YEARS BACK
REVIEWOF CORRE
L AT I O N S
SCATTERPLOTS

Relationship of High School to UCF GPA


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CORRELATION
COEFFICIENT
The total knowledge score was significantly correlated with positive attitude toward self-
regulation (r = .54), but not with observed behavior.

However, there was a strong negative relationship (r = -.68) between number of arguments
and relationship satisfaction.

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APPLICATION OF
MEASURES OF
CENTRAL TENDENCY AND
• In groups of 2 to 4, go to the In-Class Exercises section of the module and click on the

P-VALUES
“Example Experimental Research Report 2.”
• First, skim the introduction and methods sections to get a sense of what this study is about.
Then go to the results section. Some of these statistics you will not be able to understand
unless you’ve already had a stats class. But some you can.
• What can you tell about the hypothesis testing from the measure of central tendency and p-
values? What else do you recognize?
APPLICATION OF
CORRELATION
• Get in groups of 2 to 4, go to the In-Class Exercises section of the
Module and look at the “Sample Survey Research Report.”
– Skim the introduction and methods section to remind yourself of the purpose of the
study.
– Read the method section and then look at the table after the references.What is this type
of table called? What information can you get from the table?
– Are the relationships positive or negative?
– What would a graph look like (approximately) for each? (For ideas looks at the example articles
posted in the module.)
– Identify all of the statistics we’ve discussed so far.
– Explain the meaning of the second-to-last paragraph.

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