Pearson's chi-square test

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    obstacles in survey studies is often eliciting responses from surveyed individuals. As we have seen throughout this semester, larger sample sizes are beneficial to statistical analyses, as increasing the sample size can increase the power of a hypothesis test, reduce the sampling variability in a sample, and meet the baseline number of collected ‘observations’ that are needed to perform specific analyses. This is not to say that larger sample sizes are unequivocally better; a truly random, yet representative

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    Ethics, deriving from the Greek ethos meaning character (Jennings, 2010), are the “moral principles that govern a person’s behaviour or the conducting of an activity” (Oxford Dictionary, 2015b) and establish the foundation of present-day research (Cropley, 2008; Flick, 2006). They are the “norms of conduct that distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable behaviour” (Resnik, 2011) and establish the values essential for the collaborative work between the researcher and the research subject (Jennings

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    In Medieval science lab, everything was about what people believed was not always right by science. Many historical movements such as alchemic rituals performed by old scientist, crude surgeries performed by plague doctors and many of the other cases were considered primitive, which was against what we believe because of science today. However, some of these primitive sciences, called “pseudoscience” (Molumby and Murray, 2007, p.28), have persisted the scientific method, in other words people still

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    of ‘self-talk’ in creating empowerment in an individual, which will enhance the resistance to temptation and motivate goal directed behavior (Patrick & Hagtvedt, 2012, P. 372). In the prior study, quantitative analysis was performed using ANOVA, Chi-square, and binary logistic regression (Patrick & Hagtvedt, 2012). The original study was performed without mention of participant recruitment, demographic data, debriefment, as well as informed consent;

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    A STUDY ON TRAFFIC RULES VIOLATIONS IN CHENNAI (VANDALUR AND PERANGALUTUR) Submitted By: Praveen Kumar A, MBA. INTRODUCTION Violations in traffic laws are very common in a highly populated country like India. The conditions are even worse in metro cities like Delhi, Mumbai Bangalore and Chennai. The accidents associated with these violations cause a huge loss to life and property. Same is the case in Chennai. Being a metro city and a highly populated one also, has a lot of road

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    Answer to question 1: As given, it is well-known that Detroit has gone through decades of economic and social decay and has one of the highest crime rates in the country. Meanwhile, Boston is home to some of the top universities and medical schools in the world and has one of the lowest crime rates. In order to investigate the above information, three socio economic characteristics have been chosen here. They are median household income, per capita income and individual below poverty line. When

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    Some weaknesses of using secondary analysis include outdated data, a lack of collected data, data’s reliability, and biases. Researchers must find relevant data that reflect their specific study. Depending on the topic, there may be a lack of secondary data about certain topics that researchers are conducting. When a study is new, the amount of existing studies could be insufficient, which need more research to be conducted. Another weakness when using secondary analysis is the reliability of the

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    occurs. In order to figure out what factor has the strongest relationship with crime occurrence. Out of all the factors, substance abuse had the strongest relationship with crime. As foretold in a previous section, 60% of individuals that are arrested test positive for either drugs or alcohol. Also, alcohol and drugs are implicated in an estimated 80% of offenses leading to incarceration in the United States (Wilcox, 2015). In addition, the findings of this proposal support all the hypotheses except

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    The chi-square test will also include the Cramer’s V test to see the strength of the relationships. Another addition to the analytic strategy is using crosstabs where it can determine both variables such as the mother who spanked or slapped their child at least once to the child applying

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    obstacles in survey studies is often eliciting responses from surveyed individuals. As we have seen throughout this semester, larger sample sizes are beneficial to statistical analyses, as increasing the sample size can increase the power of a hypothesis test, reduce the sampling variability in a sample, and meet the baseline number of collected ‘observations’ that are needed to perform specific analyses. This is not to say that larger sample sizes are unequivocally better; a truly random, yet representative

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