Answer the Questions That Follow This SPSS Output

question 24

Essay

Answer the questions that follow this SPSS output:
 
Your research hypothesis is "In the population, persons with 16 years of schooling average more children than persons with 20 years of schooling." ( )
A) State the null hypothesis being tested.
B) Is this a one-tailed or two-tailed hypothesis?
C) Are your sample results consistent with the null hypothesis or the research hypothesis? (null / research)
D) What is the significance level? (If this step in hypothesis testing can be skipped, write the word "SKIP".)
E) What is your conclusion? (In other words, do you "reject" or "not reject" the null hypothesis based on these results?)
F) Are your results statistically significant? (yes / no)

• A) State the null hypothesis being tested.
• B) Is this a one-tailed or two-tailed hypothesis?
• C) Are your sample results consistent with the null hypothesis or the research hypothesis? (null / research)
• D) What is the significance level? (If this step in hypothesis testing can be skipped, write the word "SKIP".)
• E) What is your conclusion? (In other words, do you "reject" or "not reject" the null hypothesis based on these results?)
• F) Are your results statistically significant? (yes / no)

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Definitions:

Multiple Correlation

A statistical technique that measures the strength of a relationship between a dependent variable and two or more independent variables.

Criterion Variable

Another term for the dependent variable, it's the outcome variable that researchers are interested in predicting or explaining.

Regression

A statistical method to model the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables, predicting the value of the dependent variable based on the independents.

Predict

To make an informed guess about the future state or outcome based on current data or patterns.