Thursday, December 31, 2015

Proportional odds regression is used to predict for ordinal outcomes. There are defaults in SPSS that require recodes of all categorical and ordinal variables to correctly interpret the SPSS output. http://www.scalelive.com/proportional-odds-regression.html


Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Monday, December 28, 2015

Independent samples t-test is used to compare two independent groups on a continuous outcome after meeting the statistical assumptions of independence of observations, normality, and homogeneity of variance. http://www.scalelive.com/independent-samples-t-test.html
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Sunday, December 27, 2015

Type III errors occur as a result of miscommunication and not conducting a hypothesis-driven study. 



Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Saturday, December 19, 2015

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Compare three or more groups on an ordinal outcome or adjust for violations of statistical assumptions when using ANOVA. http://www.scalelive.com/kruskal-wallis.html

Sunday, December 13, 2015

Correlations measure the magnitude and direction of relationships between two variables. http://www.scalelive.com/correlations.html


Saturday, December 12, 2015

Friday, December 4, 2015

Statistical Power and Large Sample Sizes





Large sample sizes increase statistical power and increase the flexibility of detecting all kinds of effect sizes.

Statistical Power and Extensive Variance of Outcome





Extensive variance in the outcome decreases statistical power and increases the needed sample size.

Statistical Power and Limited Variance of Outcome





Limited variance in the outcome will increase statistical power and decrease the needed sample size.

Statistical Power and Variance of Outcome





Variance of an outcome has implications on statistical power and the needed sample size.

Statistical Power and Large Effect Sizes





Large effect sizes increase statistical power and decrease the needed sample size.

Statistical Power and Small Effect Sizes





Small effect sizes decrease statistical power and increase the needed sample size.

Statistical Power and Effect Size





Statistical power is greatly impacted by the magnitude and variance of the effect size.

Thursday, December 3, 2015

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Logistic regression is used to predict for dichotomous categorical outcomes. http://www.scalelive.com/logistic-regression.html


Statistical Power and Multivariate Designs





Multivariate designs decrease statistical power and increase the needed sample size.

Statistical Power and Within Subjects Designs





Within-subjects designs increase statistical power and decrease the needed sample size.

Statistical Power and Between Subjects Designs





Between-subjects designs decrease statistical power and increase the needed sample size.

Statistical Power and Research Designs





Research design greatly impacts statistical power in applied research and statistics.

Statistical Power and Continuous Outcomes





Continuous outcomes increase statistical power and decrease the needed sample size.

Statistical Power and Ordinal Outcomes





Ordinal outcomes decrease statistical power and increase the needed sample size.

Saturday, November 28, 2015

Statistical Power and Categorical Outcomes





Categorical outcomes decrease statistical power and increase the needed sample size. This is because categorical level measurement possesses less precision and accuracy.

Statistical Power and Outcomes





Statistical power is greatly impacted by the scale of measurement of the outcome. Categorical and ordinal level measurement possess little precision and accuracy in comparison to continuous level measurement. Therefore, categorical and ordinal level measurements will always decrease statistical power and increase the needed sample size.

Statistical Power





Statistical power is the ability to detect significant treatment effects, given the effect exists in the population. http://www.scalelive.com/statistical-power.html


Saturday, November 21, 2015

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