When Deciding How to Make a Claim About the Effect

question 12

Multiple Choice

When deciding how to make a claim about the effect of a variable,researchers should

• A)be aware of limitations association with null hypothesis significance testing.
• B)report the results of significance testing instead of measures of effect size.
• C)use the most complicated analysis to tease out the fullest effect.
• D)use null hypothesis significance testing instead of confidence intervals.

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Definitions:

Sample

A group or set collected from a larger population for the purpose of statistical analysis, representing the larger group.

Hypothesis Testing

A statistical method that uses sample data to evaluate a hypothesis about a population parameter.

Statistical Analyses

The process of applying statistical methods to data in order to summarize, describe, and infer properties of the underlying distribution.