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Statistical Analysis I have all this data. Now what does it mean?

Statistical Analysis I have all this data. Now what does it mean?. Continuous quantitative – measurement scale divisible into partial units Ex-Distance in kilometers Discrete quantitative - measurement scale with whole integers only Ex- number of wolves born in given year

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Statistical Analysis I have all this data. Now what does it mean?

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  1. Statistical AnalysisI have all this data. Now what does it mean?

  2. Continuous quantitative – measurement scale divisible into partial units Ex-Distance in kilometers Discrete quantitative- measurement scale with whole integers only Ex- number of wolves born in given year Quantitative data can be subdivided into: Ratio - with equal divisible intervals & absolute zero Interval - does not have absolute zero Qualitative Nominal- objects are named or can’t be ranked Example- Gender (male/female) Qualitative Ordinal - objects are placed into categories that can be ranked Example- activity of an animal on a scale of 1 to 5 Is your data Quantitative or Qualitative? Decide which type of data you have__________________

  3. Describing data Central tendency (How different 2 sets of Data is) • Mode - value that occurs most often • Median - middle value when ranked highest to lowest • Mean - mathematical average Variation (How spread out the data is) • For quantitative data –Rangehttp://www.mathsisfun.com/data/standard-deviation.html • For qualitative data -Frequency distributionFrequency Distribution example link

  4. Statistics Software … is not going to do your job for you. It is: not going to tell you what test to select not going to tell you if the test you selected is the right one not going to tell you how to interpret the test results.

  5. Making decisions about descriptive statistics & Graphs Decide which type of data you have, parameters you will need to calculate and on your Excel chart, enter the formula for each of the parameters.

  6. Inferential StatisticsIs the data statistically significant? Statistical Tests The t-test (or Analysis of Variance): two or more groups to compare measurements of each group. The Chi-square test: counts that can be placed into yes or no categories, or categories such as quadrants. The Pearson R Correlation: to test how the values of one event or object relates to the values of another event or object

  7. How to select statistical test?Is Dependent Variable (DV) continuous, ordinal, or nominal?

  8. Null Hypothesis (μ) …..states that there is no difference between the mean of your control group and the mean of your experimental group. Therefore any observed difference between the two sample means occurred by chance and is not significant. If you can reject your null hypothesis then there is a significant difference between your control and experimental groups. Hence accept the alternative (original hypothesis). Write your null hypothesis _____________________________

  9. Probability - ChanceCould the difference between the groups due to random chance /error? Probability of error or p-value < 0.05 means that the error in the research is 5/100 or below 0.05 (95% results have no error) P<0.05 • Less than 5% chance is considered to be OK. • Reject Null hypothesis • Accept your alternative (original) hypothesis P>0.05 • Greater than 5% then the data is not significant. • Must accept Null hypothesis

  10. Level of significance () and Degree of freedom (df) Level of significance () - It communicates probability of error in rejecting Null hypothesis p-value < 0.05 means that the probability of error in the research is 5/100 (95% results with no error) Degree of freedom (df) - It is number of independent observations in a sample. t-test df = (n1-1) + (n2-1) Chi-square df = (#rows – 1) (#columns – 1) Pearson R correlation df = (n-2) subtract 2 from the number of comparisons made. T test Chi square tables.doc

  11. Accept or Reject the null hypothesis Find the table value for the t-test and the Chi-square test (using calculated degrees of freedom and the Level of Significance of 0.05 = 95%) Compare calculated value to table value. Calculated value < table value Null hypothesis is NOT rejected Calculated value > or = table value Null hypothesis is rejected.

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