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QUESTION 9 9) A researcher is testing the claim that men and women who were arrested...

QUESTION 9

  1. 9) A researcher is testing the claim that men and women who were arrested last year have the same number of prior arrests. Data were analyzed and the following SPSS output was given.

    a) State an Alternative or Research Hypothesis that is being tested with the sample data you have T-Test results for below.

    b) Are the variances equal for these two groups?

    c) Report the test statistic value and your decision at a 5% significance level about the Null Hypothesis.

    Independent Samples Test

    Levene's Test

    for Equality of Variances

    t-test for Equality of Means

    F

    Sig.

    t

    df

    Sig. (2-tailed)

    Mean Difference

    Std. Error Difference

    95% Confidence Interval of the Difference

    Lower

    Upper

    # PRIOR ARREST

    Equal variances assumed

    7.684

    .006

    -.859

    1028

    .391

    -.678

    .790

    -2.227

    .871

    Equal variances not assumed

    -.637

    127.398

    .525

    -.678

    1.065

    -2.785

    1.429
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