Application: Your Data Interpretation Practicum

This week, you will run either t tests or ANOVA on your chosen data. This Application requires you to engage in data interpretation and to select the appropriate analyses for your hypotheses and for the data that you have at your disposal. Toward that end, you should consider which analyses will inform the reader and allow you to pursue your questions.

Correlation and Regression

• Conduct statistical analyses including correlations, regression, and discriminant analysis

• Analyze statistical findings derived from correlations, regression, and discriminant analysis

• Select the appropriate statistical analysis for a given hypothesis and set of data

Your submission to your Instructor should include your SPSS output file of your selected statistical analyses in a Word document, along with each of the following elements: your SPSS output, including graphical representations; your narrative interpretation; the governing assumptions of the analyses you ran; the viable and nonviable hypotheses (null and alternative); and the relevant values (such as a P value indicating statistical significance or a lack thereof). Be sure to indicate to your Instructor why you selected the analyses that you did. In other words, why did you select t test over ANOVA or vice versa? Why one-way or two-way? How is this analysis related to the hypothesis?