Describe it to Me
Analyze This
Validate That
Don't Get Rejected
Other fun stuff to remember
100

Measure of CT used for categorical data

Mode

100

Ranked data organized according to increasing or decreasing presence of a characteristic

Ordinal

100

Making sure we are measuring what we think we are

Validity

100

Chance’ hypothesis

Null

100

Other terms for the cause and the effect

IV & DV

200

Two types of statistics needed to accurately describe a sample

Central Tendency and Variability

200

Salkind & Frey’s 8 step process used to answer a research question

Hypothesis Testing

200

Reliability coefficients range from _____ to _____

0 to 1

200

Typical ‘levels’ of risk chosen to reject null

 p < .05 and p < .01

200

______________ is not causation

Correlation
300

Type of distribution in which all three measures of Central Tendency are the same

Normal Curve

300

Specific procedures used to analyze data to answer hypotheses

Significance Tests

300

Some say all validity is _____ validity

Construct


300

Old school value used to determine whether to reject the null or not after a significance test

ciritical value

300

the extent to which results or findings obtained from a sample are applicable to a broader population

Generalizability

400

Square root of the variance

Standard Deviation

400

Measure of the strength of a result

Effect Size
400

Most commonly used measure of internal consistency reliability

Chronbach's Alpha

400

Type of t-test to use when you have a directional hypothesis

One-tailed

400

Type of questionnaire that collects background information.

Demographic

500

Proportion of variability in one variable that cannot is can be  accounted for by the variability in the other variable

Coefficient of alientation

500

___ is the symbol for the results of an ANOVA.  What Another name for these overall results? (Two part question)

F, omnibus

500

Confidence Interval specifically used for bracketing individual scores on a test

Standard Error of Measurement

500

Accepting a null when you should have rejected it

Type II error
500

X-M/SD

Formula for a Z score