Central Tendency
The average score for the variable across all participants.
What is the mean?
The hypothesis test that is used for parametric data with both binary independent and dependent variables.
What is chi squared?
x2 is the symbol for this statistic.
What is the symbol for Chi squared?
What is R?
"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable" said the creator of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.
Who is Mark Twain?
The score that appears most frequently in a list of scores.
What is the mode?
The hypothesis test that is used for parametric data with binary independent variables but continuous dependent variables.
What is a t-test?
F is the symbol for this statistic.
What is the symbol for analysis of variance (ANOVA)?
Statistical software package with a name that sounds like the word for "layers".
What is stata?
Who is Liza Minelli?
A measure of how dispersed the data are about the mean value for a variable.
What is the standard deviation?
The hypothesis test that is used for parametric data with continuous independent variables and binary dependent variables.
What is logistic regression?
The lower case "r" is the symbol for this statistic.
What is the symbol for Pearson correlation?
The statistical software previously known as "Statistical Analysis System" whose three letter name is another word for "being cheeky".
What is SAS?
"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic" said this Soviet dictator whose rule during the 1930s and 1940s featured ethnic cleansing, pervasive censorship, wide scale deportations, and severe famines.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
The conversion of an original score into a relative score measured in units of standard deviations.
What is the z score?
The hypothesis test that is used for parametric data with both continuous independent and dependent variables.
What is linear regression?
Probability that results could have been produced by chance if the null hypothesis were true for the population?
What is the p value?
The only free programming platform other than R whose name scares most.
What is Python?
"If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment" said this scientist who has been coined "the father of nuclear physics".
Who is Ernest Rutherford?
On a normal distribution graph, this is the percentage of scores that are expected to fall between +1 and -1 standard deviation.
What is 68%
The non-parametric version of a 2-sample t-test.
What is the Mann-Whitney U test?
The threshold, specified in advance of testing, that denotes values that are "more extreme than 5% of the chance (null hypothesis) results".
What is alpha?
"Statistical Package for Social Sciences" first developed in 1968 at Stanford University.
What is SPSS?
"Aggregate statistics can sometimes mask important information" said this former chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Who is Ben Bernanke?