A Researcher Is Attempting to Decide Whether to Hire a Statistician

question 31

Multiple Choice

A researcher is attempting to decide whether to hire a statistician to assist with the statistical aspects of the study. If the researcher cannot perform all of the following for a quantitative study, why should a statistician be contacted?

• A)Provide sample demographics using descriptive statistics.
• B)Perform reliability testing of the study instruments.
• C)Design and perform analyses to answer research questions and test hypotheses.
• D)Design and perform an exploratory analysis of the data.
• E)Hand-compute all statistical calculations.
• F)Prepare the data for analysis.
• G)Perform a power analysis.
• H)Interpret the results obtained by all statistical computations.

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