Two Groups of Students - Those Looking to Study Science

question 57

Multiple Choice

Two groups of students - those looking to study science degrees and those looking to study business degrees - are asked to rank, in order of preference, the universities they are applying for. The researcher then wants to determine the correlation between the two groups. Which statistical test is most appropriate?

• A) Pearson's correlation coefficient
• B) Chi-square test
• C) Spearman's rank-order correlation coefficient
• D) Independent samples t-test

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Definitions:

Forecast Accuracy

The degree to which a forecast predicts actual outcomes.

Sum of Squares

A statistical technique used to measure the variation or dispersion of a set of values, by quantifying the summation of the squared differences between each value and the mean of the set.

Deseasonalized Time Series

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Moving Averages

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