Chapters 1 and 2
100
What types of variables are there?
Independent, dependent, continuous and categorical, nominal and ordinal, interval and ratio
200
What is a hypothesis?

Assumptions about relationship among two or more variables under investigation.

They provide the general framework for the investigation and describes the problems and the variables being tested.


300
What are the two types of hypothesis?
Null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis
400
what is an instrumental codebook?

An instrumentation codebook consists of codes (letters, numbers, or other characters) that will be entered in a SPSS data file.

These codes will be based on the information available from the study instrument/questionnaire.


500
Describe how you would convert a categorical value to a numeric value

Name: Gender

Categorical values: Male and Female

Numerical values: Male = 0 and Female = 1


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