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Practice Problems (Chapters 7 and 8)
Chapter 7
1. Which would you expect to be more variable: (a) the distribution of scores in a population or (b) the distribution of sample means based on random samples of 25 cases from this population. Explain.
Chapter 8
8. What is meant by statistical significance? Why does your author suggest that it may not always be adequate for purposes of research?
9. Provide an example of the following: (a) A research problem appropriate for a non-directional test using the one-sample z-statistic. (b) A research problem appropriate for a directional test using the one-sample t-statistic.
10. Consider the data in problem 11 in the text (page 199). Enter these data into SPSS and conduct a test of the null hypothesis.