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1
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Experimental designs are classed as either

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  • Related

- Unrelated

2
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Related design

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Repeated measures and matched pairs as they are matched on characteristics and complete same conditions

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Unrelated design

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Participants are different in each condition so unrelated

4
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Three Types of Data

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  • Nominal
  • Ordinal
  • Interval
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Nominal Data

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Data divided into categories (Most basic form of data) Gives very little detail and known as discrete data as participant can only go into one category

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Example of Nominal Data

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‘Did a student pass or fail’ – fixed categories

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Ordinal Data

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Data ordered in some way such as ranked form 1 to 10. Intervals are subjective so not equal and precise, one person’s 4 may be another’s 6

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Example of Ordinal Data

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Students rating of how difficult an exam was

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Interval Data

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Highest form of data and provides most detail. Based on numerical scales in which intervals are universal. Each interval is precise and fixed such as time, height, weight etc.

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Examples of Interval Data

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Time taken to complete an exam

11
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Stats Table Acronym

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Children Should Chop Men’s Willies So U R Penisless aka Chi-Squared, Sign Test, Chi Squares, Mann Whitney, Wilcoxon, Spearman’s Rho, Unrelated T-Test, Related T-Test, and Pearson’s R

12
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Name all the stats tests

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Chi-Squared, Sign Test, Chi Squares, Mann Whitney, Wilcoxon, Spearman’s Rho, Unrelated T-Test, Related T-Test, and Pearson’s R

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Three Factors needed for sign test

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  • Nominal Data
  • Test of difference
  • Related Design
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Three Factors needed for Mann-Whitney U

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  • Ordinal Data
  • Test of difference
  • Unrelated design
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Six Factors (can be used in two scenarios) needed for Chi-Squared

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  • Nominal Data
  • Test of difference
  • Unrelated
    Or
  • Nominal
  • Test of Association
  • Related
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Three Factors needed for Wilcoxon

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  • Ordinal
  • Test of difference
  • Related design
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Three Factors needed for Spearman’s Rho

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  • Ordinal Data
  • Test of Association
  • Related Design
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Three Factors needed for Pearson’s R

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  • Interval
  • Test of Association
  • Related
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Three Factors needed for Related T-Test

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  • Interval Data
  • Test of difference
  • Related design
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Three Factors needed for Unrelated T-Test

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  • Interval Data
  • Test of Difference
  • Unrelated

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