Confidence Intervals and Effect Sizes
Properties and Assumptions of t tests
One-Sample t Tests
Independent Samples t Tests
Related Samples t Tests
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A common level of confidence for a confidence interval is...

What is 80, 90, 95, or 99%

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The exact shape of the t distribution depends on this

What is degrees of freedom?
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The purpose of a one-sample t test

What is to compare a sample mean to a corresponding population mean
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The purpose of an independent samples t-test

What is to compare the means of two independent groups

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The purpose of a related samples t-test

What is to compare the means of two related sets of scores?

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In a confidence interval, the ________ extends equally in both directions away from the sample mean

What is the margin of error?

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One of the key advantages of using a t statistic is that unlike a z-score, it does not require the __________ to be known

What is the population standard deviation?

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Degrees of freedom for one-sample (and related samples) t-tests is calculated as...

What is sample size (n) minus 1?
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The type of variance that we calculate for an independent samples t-test is...

What is pooled variance?

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MD means this

What is sample mean difference?

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A Cohen's d value of 0.8 corresponds to a ______ effect size

What is large?
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One of the assumptions of t tests is that the populations from which the sample(s) are selected must be...

What is approximately normal?
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The formula for a t statistic is the sample mean subtract population mean divided by...

What is the estimated standard error?

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The degrees of freedom for independent samples t-test is...

What is df1 + df2?
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Related samples t-tests can be used when one sample is in two conditions, or when...

Two samples are paired/matched?

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A confidence interval is a range of values centered around __________.

What is a sample statistic or sample mean?

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The two factors that impact results of a hypothesis test are...

What are variability and sample size?

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The value for the population mean could be known, or it could be obtained from...

What is a theory, logical prediction, previous evidence, etc?

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Homogeneity of variances is most important when...

What is a large discrepancy between sample sizes?
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One of the problems with related samples designs is...

Cannot account for outside factors that caused the change; participation in condition 1 could impact performance in condition 2 unless there is counterbalancing

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The two factors that affect the width of a confidence interval

What are the confidence level/percentage of confidence and sample size?

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In general, calculating a t statistic by hand has these three parts (a, b, c). The first and second parts are...

What is calculating the variance and estimated standard error?
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A basic conclusion frame for a one-samples t test is...

There is [or is not] a significant difference between the sample mean and the population mean

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A basic conclusion frame for an independent samples t-test is...

There is [or is not] a significant difference in [dependent variable] between group 1 and group 2.

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A basic conclusion frame for a related samples t-test is...

There is [or is not] a significant mean difference in [dependent variable] between [condition 1] and [condition 2].