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- NORMALITY TESTS
- These two tests check whether a variable is drawn from a normal
- population. In both cases, you must select the variable to operate
- on. In the case where you know the parameters, you will be asked
- for the mean and standard deviation of the underlying population.
- The program will not evaluate the statistic returned. Published
- tables must be used.
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- DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
- These tests provide mean, standard deviation, kurtosis, etc., for
- the data set. If using grouped data, you will have to select a
- grouping variable as well as the data variable.
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- CORRELATION
- These provide simple correlation tests.
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- -Simple correlation is the correlation between two variables which
- you choose.
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- -The Spearman rank correlation test compares the ranks of two sets
- of variables rather than the actual numbers.
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- -The contingency coefficient test compares two variables on a
- parametric basis. Data must be non-negative and scaled nominally.
-
- -Kendal Concordance is used with three or more variables which are
- in the form of ranks. No selection of variables is made. The
- entire set of data in memory is used.
-
- -The Kendal Tau test is similar to the Spearman rank test. It is
- used for two variables in the form of ranks.
-
- -The Point Biserial correlation test is used with two related
- variables. One variable is at least intervally scaled, and the
- other is a dichotomous variable. A dichotomous variable is one
- which can have only two values 0 or 1, such as for male versus
- female. You will be asked separately for the two variables.
-
- -Q-Q correlation. This correlation uses only one variable. The
- correlation is done between the ordered variable and the normal
- quantiles derived from the data. You must use the Q-Q table to
- see if the data is reasonable. this test is used to check for
- normality.
-
- -Lagged Auto correlation determines the correlation of a variable
- with itself at an earlier time. The program will ask for the
- variable to be examined and a variable into which to store the
- results. The result is a series of values specifying the
- correlation for a multitude of lag periods. The first value is
- with no lag and has value 1.
-
- -Lagged Multiple Correlation is similar to the above except that
- two variables are examined. In this case, you are asked for two
- variables. Order of selection is important. The lag period will
- refer to the value of the second variable "K" periods earlier.
- Thus, if Variable "A" is to be related to Variable "B" at earlier
- periods, you should select Variable "A" first and "B" second.
-
- -Partial correlation measures the correlation of two variables
- with the effect of another group of variables removed. You select
- a group of variables. The result is a matrix where the off diagonal
- elements are partial correlation coefficients and the diagonal
- elements are multiple correlation coefficients.
- You need at least 3 variables.
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- ORDINAL TESTS
- -Kolmogorov-Smirnov test checks a single variable to determine if
- the values support the hypothesis that the differences between
- them are chance.
- -Mann Whitney "U" test requires two independent samples
- (variables). The variables do not have to be the same size.
- The test determines whether there is a difference in the rankings
- between two groups. Small values are extreme for this test so the
- comparison is "is the value less than the table value?"
- -Wilcoxon test is similar to the Mann Whitney, except that it uses
- related or paired variables. Like the Mann Whitney, small values
- are extreme. Thus if the calculated value is less than the tabular
- value you reject the null hypothesis that there is no difference
- between samples.
- -Kruskal Wallis test uses all data in the data set. There must be
- at least three variables. The test is basically the three-or-more-
- factor equivalent of Mann Whitney. The extreme values are high,
- unlike the Mann Whitney.
- -Friedman test uses all the data. This is the three-or-more-factor
- equivalent of Wilcoxon. However, because of the formulation, the
- statistic extreme values are high.
- -Median test indicates whether the two samples appear to be drawn
- from populations with the same median.
- -Runs test is used for one variable. In addition, you must select
- the test criteria from among zero, the mean, and the median. The
- test determines whether the data appears to be randomly
- distributed about the criterion.
- -Sign test is used to test the probablility that a given variable
- has a median of some test value. You must choose a variable and
- then a test value for the median.
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- NOMINAL TESTS
- -Chi Square 1 test uses two variables, with the first representing
- the expected number of occurrences and the second the actual
- number. The test determines whether the actual data is consistant
- with the expected.
- -Chi Square 2 test uses all of the data. The data is assumed to be
- set up in a contingency matrix form. The null hypothesis is that
- there is no relationship between the rows and columns.
- -McNemar test uses all data. There must be two rows and two
- columns. It is a test used to investigate changes in response in a
- pre- and post-stimulous study. See the manual for data setup.
- -Cochran test uses all data in the data set. There must be three
- or more related variables with dichotomous data. In B/STAT
- positives are treated as 1, negatives or 0 as 0. The test uses the
- null hypothesis that there is no difference between variables.
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