10What Are the Pros and Cons of Using Archival Research

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10.What are the pros and cons of using archival research?

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Definitions:

T-test

A type of inferential statistic used to determine if there is a significant difference between the means of two variables, often used when the data sets would follow a normal distribution and have a known standard deviation.

Dependent Means

Pertains to a statistical analysis involving paired or matched samples, comparing the means between two related groups.

Directional Hypothesis

A hypothesis that predicts not only a relationship but also the direction of the relationship between two variables or groups.

Alpha

A threshold value used in statistics to determine the significance level below which a null hypothesis is rejected in a hypothesis test.