SPSS Dataset |
SPSS Data for HW (500 cases).sav (available in Canvas) |
Variable Names in the dataset |
group: Group assignment (new vs. routine treatment) |
sbi: Number of serious behavioral incidents |
State the research hypothesis (non-directional) and the null hypothesis. Make sure you include both DV and IV.)
Group Statistics |
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Treatment |
N |
Mean |
Std. Deviation |
Std. Error Mean |
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Number of serious behavioral incidents |
New treatment |
250 |
6.00 |
7.546 |
.477 |
Routine treatment |
250 |
5.00 |
1.299 |
.082 |
Independent Samples Test |
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Levene's Test for Equality of Variances |
t-test for Equality of Means |
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F |
Sig. |
t |
df |
Sig. (2-tailed) |
Mean Difference |
Std. Error Difference |
95% Confidence Interval of the Difference |
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Lower |
Upper |
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Number of serious behavioral incidents |
Equal variances assumed |
374.402 |
.000 |
2.065 |
498 |
.039 |
1.000 |
.484 |
.048 |
1.952 |
Equal variances not assumed |
2.065 |
263.737 |
.040 |
1.000 |
.484 |
.046 |
1.954 |
Null hypothesis:
The number of serious behavioral incidents is same for New treatment and Routine treatment i.e. New Treatment has the same effect on the number of serious behavioral incidents as Routine treatment.
Alternative hypothesis(non-directional):
The number of serious behavioral incidents is different for New treatment and Routine treatment i.e. New Treatment has some different effect on the number of serious behavioral incidents when compared to Routine treatment.
Conceptual Information
Null hypothesis: Population Parameter of no effect
Directional research hypothesis:
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