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What is significance?
The
relationship
between two variables is strong enough to
reject
the
null
hypothesis - our results are
unlikely
to be due to
chance
If the P value is more than 0.05, what does this mean?
We
accept
the
null
If the P value is less than 0.05, what does this mean?
We
reject
the null
What are the three types of data?
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
What is nominal data?
Categories
- not
qualitative
(eg hair colour)
What is
ordinal
data?
Data is ordered but there is no quantifiable difference between values (eg a
scale
)
What is
interval
level data?
Labels variables with a natural order and a quantifiable difference (eg cm)