An Unproven Statement or Proposition About a Factor or Phenomenon

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Multiple Choice

An unproven statement or proposition about a factor or phenomenon that is of interest to the researcher is called a(n) ________.

• A)situation
• B)incident
• C)hypothesis
• D)theory
• E)research question

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Definitions:

One-sample Chi-square Test

A statistical test used to compare the observed distribution of data with an expected distribution to test the goodness of fit.

Medians

The middle value in a data set, which divides the set into two equal halves.

Mann-Whitney U

A nonparametric test used to compare differences between two independent samples.

Wilcoxon Rank Test

A non-parametric statistical test used to compare two related samples to determine if their population means ranks differ.