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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/intelligentwr/nursingassignmentcrackers/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Statistical tests are an essential tool used to help understand the meaning of a given dataset. Based on the statistical tests results, one can deduce whether the data obtained from a study supports the hypothesis or not. Similarly, they help in determining the credibility and inferential ability of the data collected<\/a> from the sample populations in a study. Various tests serve different purposes and can only be applied depending on the nature of the data involved and the research questions to be answered. ANOVA test is commonly used to determine the correlation between given variables. The data from the grades.sav.set will be used in this study to explore further the use of ANOVA in data analysis and interpretation.<\/p>\n
The data in this study were obtained from the SPSS dataset. A teacher recorded the performance and demographic characteristics of a group of students in the class. A total of 105 students participated in the study. The variables analyzed included the section and quiz3 outcomes which were displayed in the SPSS data. The participants were divided into three groups labeled 1, 2 and 3 with each section having 33, 39 and 33 students respectively. The section variables were used as predictor variables and were measured in nominal scale. On the other hand, quiz3 variable was the outcome variable measured in ratio scale.<\/p>\n
ANOVA tests are only suitable under given assumptions which must be considered when analyzed data<\/a>. The first assumption for this case was that the data were independent and followed a normal distribution. Before the ANOVA test is performed, it is important to identify an assumption that may come along with the test. Secondly, it was also assumed that the data are centrally located and does not have outliers.<\/p>\n
Histogram was constructed from the collected data and this would help determine whether the data followed a normal distribution or not. Furthermore, it could also be used in testing the second assumption, which was on the tendency of central location. The figure above shows that the total sample population (N) was 105 with the mean and standard deviation of 7.13 and 1.16 respectively. The findings confirm that the data follows a normal distribution and there are no outliers considering that the tails are evenly sloped. In addition, the descriptive statistics were also used in testing the study assumptions. The results indicated that the data were negatively skewed while the kurtosis was positive. However, the kurtosis value is not high and this means that there is nearly equal distribution at both the tail and the head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n