You Are a Reporter for Your College Paper and Are

question 66

Essay

You are a reporter for your college paper and are working in advance on some ideas for the weekly Internet column. You decide it would be useful for your readers if you wrote about the importance of creating a research strategy. You start by making notes on the points you want to cover. Record your notes about developing a research strategy.

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Definitions:

Categorical Variables

Categorical variables are qualitative variables that can take on different categories, but which do not have a natural order or ranking.

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities that can vary in the analysis without violating any constraints.

Type I Error

The incorrect rejection of a true null hypothesis, also known as a "false positive."

Critical Values

Thresholds or boundaries in statistical tests that define the region where the null hypothesis can either be rejected or not rejected.