What's the symbol?
Michael (2019)
Stats on Stats
What's the vocab?
True or False
100

Name this symbol " x bar"?

sample mean 

100

The study was conducted in, what country...

What is Israel?

100

This is author of the text for TLPL 662.

Who is Healey?

100

What is the mean?

the average

100

Scatterplots show the relationship between independent and dependent variables. 

True

200

This symbol is called μ 

population mean

200

Who were the participants in the study?

110 young adults (33 men and 75 women) from central Israel: 50 were deaf persons and 6o typical hearing

200
Two more widely known and used type of statistics are inferential and this kind...

What is descriptive.

200

What is the name of this symbol (B) ?

the unstandardized beta

200

Research questions should be confusing and long

False

300

Name this symbol: "s" ?

sample standard deviation

300

How many predictor variables were used in the study? 

Six

300

The science of collecting and analyzing data for the purpose of making inferences is known as ...

What is statistics.

300

What is the name of this symbol "SE B" ?

the standard error for the unstandardized beta

300

The dependent variable is the outcome you're interested in measuring. 

true

400

Name this symbol: σ

Population Standard Deviation

400

What was one of the hypotheses in the study?

  • Deaf participants will report lower levels of family support than participants with typical hearing


  • Participants’ hearing status, family support, and family expectations will have a significant contribution to their CDMSE 

400

Measures of association describe two characteristics of relationships between/among variables: strength and this.

What is direction or pattern.

400

What is the name of this symbol "β" ?

the standardized beta

400

An independent variable is NOT the variable you manipulate or vary in an experimental study to explore its effects

false

500

Name this symbol: Ho and H1

Ho = null hypothesis.
H1: alternative hypothesis.

500

What was one method used in the study?

  • Measures sampled by Deaf education experts and Deaf youth to determine suitability for Deaf participants

  • CDMSE Scale five-point scale

  • Family Influence Scale

  • Background questionnaire - through social media  

500

This forumla is used to determine the confidence intervals for population mean μ if σ is known.

What is x bar plus or minus z times sigma over the square root of N.

500

What is multiple regression?

It explains the relationship between multiple independent or predictor variables and one dependent or criterion value.

500

According to Healey, the first step in hypothesis testing is to state the hypothesis.

What is false. (It's check assumptions.)

M
e
n
u