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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

Answer 1

Ans. Note:- All answers are given using SPSS output.