To prepare for this Assignment, imagine that you haveinformation about how 20 nursing students and 20 psychologystudents felt about starting PSYC 3002 on Day 1 of this class. Youwant to know if nursing students and psychology students feltdifferently about embarking on the Introduction to Basic Statisticsjourney. You can find the data set for this Assignment in theWeekly Data Set forum found in the Discussions area of the coursenavigation menu.
| Nursing | Psychology |
| Nervous | 4 | 11 |
| Excited | 16 | 9 |
| Another way of looking at this data set would be: |
| 4 Nervous Nursing Students |
| 11 Nervous Psychology Students |
| 16 Excited Nursing Students |
| 9 Excited Psychology Students |
By Day 7
To complete this Assignment, submit youranswers to the following. Use SPSS to determine if academic programis related to feelings about PSYC 3002 by computing the appropriatechi square test.
- Recall the four scales of measurement you learned about in Week1 (i.e., nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio). Explain what scale ofmeasurement is used to measure academic program in this example.How do you know?
- Explain what scale of measurement is used to measure feelingabout PSYC 3002. Explain how you know.
- State whether this scenario requires a goodness of fit test ora test of independence. Explain your answer.
- Before computing the chi square, state the null hypothesis andalternative hypothesis in words (not formulas).
- Identify the obtained ?2 using SPSS and report it in youranswer document.
- State the degrees of freedom and explain how you calculated itby hand.
- Identify the p value using SPSS and report it in your answerdocument.
- Explain whether you should retain or reject the null hypothesisand why.
- Are the results statistically significant? How do youknow?
- Explain what you can determine about the relationship betweenacademic program and feelings about PSYC 3002.
