Measures of Association
This concept is used to determine the strength of the linear relationship between two variables
What is Correlation Coefficient?
This term is also called Z scores in statistics
What are standard scores?
Statistical significance is less than this number
What is > 0.05?
This measure provides us the effect size
What is the d-statistic?
This method of analysis is best used to analyze ordinal data
What is Rank Order Measures?
This term helps us compare 2 different test scores that have different means and standard deviations
What are standard scores?
You are a student at York University, and someone brings up the idea of comparing average scores between people taking classes during COVID versus after the pandemic. This would be an example of…
What is a T test?
This measures the strength of the relationship between variables
What is an effect size?
This is the symbol for the sample correlation coefficient.
What is r?
This is a type of descriptive data
What is:
- Comparisons of different departments, locations, occupational groups etc?
- Comparisons with similar groups in other organizations?
- Comparisons of the responses of similar groups across time?
- Comparisons of the same group to different aspects of some content area, such as training program or work situation?
Congrats, you are a world-renowned researcher and want to look at differences in means between more than two groups - you would use this statistical tool to measure this
What is Anova/Analysis of variance?
To study the relationship between level of employee education and employee motivation, you would use the following method.
What is the phi coefficient?
You are not a researcher but were bored and created a survey testing whether people see a dress as blue or gold. You looked at two different groups of people (men and women) and compared the different means. You then realized that the means/ results were all the same and there was no statistical difference - this lack of statistical difference is called
What is the null hypothesis?