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PSY 325 Entire Course (Ash) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psy325tutor.com   PSY 325 Week 1
Assignment Final Paper Topic Proposal   PSY 325
Week 1 DQ 1 Types of Data   PSY 325 Week 1 DQ 2
Measures of Variability and Central
Tendency   PSY 325 Week 2 Assignment Article
Summary
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PSY 325 Week 1 Assignment Final Paper Topic
Proposal (Ash) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psy325tutor.com   Final Paper Topic
Proposal For the Final Paper, you will identify
three to five research studies from peer-reviewed
sources that were published within the last ten
years, which investigate a particular social
science problem or topic. The Final Paper will
focus on critiquing the varying statistical
approaches used in each of these studies.
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PSY 325 Week 1 DQ 1 Types of Data (Ash) FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.psy325tutor.com   Types of
Data Give an example of a research question that
includes an independent and a dependent variable.
These are usually presented as, "How does A
affect B?", where A is your independent variable
and B is your dependent variable. Describe the
independent and dependent variables in terms of
whether they are nominal (also called
categorical), ordinal, interval, or ratio
variables
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PSY 325 Week 1 DQ 2 Measures of Variability and
Central Tendency (Ash) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psy325tutor.com   Measures of Central
Tendency For this discussion, come up with 20
different data points (set of data) and enter
them into the first column in an Excel
spreadsheet. The data points can be any numbers
you want as long as there are 20 of them. Your
set of data should reflect one of the following
criteria
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PSY 325 Week 2 Assignment Article Summary (Ash)
FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.psy325tutor.com   Arti
cle Summary For your Final Paper you will
identify three to five quantitative research
studies from peer-reviewed sources which were
published within the last ten years and that
investigate a particular social science problem
or topic. The Final Paper will focus on
critiquing the varying statistical approaches
used in each of these studies and assess the
strengths and weaknesses of each as it relates to
the study of the problem or topic identified.
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PSY 325 Week 2 DQ 1 Graphs (Ash) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.psy325tutor.com   Graphs Give
one example of health-related data (a variable)
that can be represented by a pie chart. Do the
same for a bar chart and a histogram. Explain why
each data example you selected (there will be a
total of three different variables) is well
represented by the corresponding graph.
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PSY 325 Week 2 DQ 2 Standard Normal Distribution
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  Standard Normal Distribution Review Chapter 3
of your course text, which introduces probability
and the standard normal distribution. When
comparing data from different distributions, what
is the benefit of transforming data from these
distributions to conform to the
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PSY 325 Week 3 Assignment Final Paper Outline
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  Final Paper Outline. This week, your
assignment is to prepare an outline for the Final
Paper that is due next week. Review the Final
Paper requirements, which are located in Week
Five of your course or in the Components of
Course Evaluation section of this guide.
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PSY 325 Week 3 DQ 1 Choose the Analysis (Ash)
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se the Analysis. A researcher wishes to study the
effect of a new drug on blood pressure. Would you
recommend using a z-test, a t-test, or an
A.N.O.V.A. for the analysis? Explain your answer.
What would your choice of test depend on? For the
test you select, explain your design and your
comparison groups. Would the hypothesis be
directional or non-directional? Would the test be
one-tailed
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PSY 325 Week 3 DQ 2 Repeated Measures (Ash) FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.psy325tutor.com   Repeated
Measures. Review Chapter 7 of your course text,
which reviews inferential statistics that analyze
experiments of repeated measures designs. For
this discussion, search the University Library
and find a scholarly, peer-reviewed study on any
behavioral or social sciences topic that used a
repeated measures design. Reference the study and
summarize the research question, the subjects,
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PSY 325 Week 4 DQ 1 Correlation (Ash) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.psy325tutor.com   Correlation
Much has been written about the relationship
between a students S.A.T. test scores and their
familys income. Generally speaking, there is a
strong positive correlation between income and
S.A.T. scores. What might this tell you? Is this
evidence that having a high family income causes
one to have high S.A.T. scores? Is this evidence
that high S.A.T. scores are a cause of high
income? Or, does
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PSY 325 Week 4 DQ 2 Regression (Ash) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.psy325tutor.com   Regression
Explain the relationship between correlation and
regression. What do the two approaches have in
common, and how are they different? In what types
of research might one approach be preferred over
the other? Explain and justify your response.
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PSY 325 Week 5 DQ 1 Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit
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r.com   Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test. Describe
the chi-square goodness-of-fit test. Provide a
detailed explanation of what this test measures,
and how it is similar to and different from the
independent t-test. How do you know when to use
one analysis over the other? Provide a real-world
example.
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PSY 325 Week 5 DQ 2 Chi-Square Test of
Independence (Ash) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psy325tutor.com   Chi-Square Test of
Independence Describe the chi-square test of
independence. Give an example of a question that
could be answered using this test. If you were to
assemble a contingency table, what would be
included in your rows and columns? Pick a cell of
this contingency table and explain what the value
in the cell would represent (you do not need to
give the value, just explain what it would
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PSY 325 Week 5 Final Paper (Ash) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.psy325tutor.com   Focus of the
Final Paper   For your Final Paper you will
conduct a research study critique. Utilize the
instructor-approved topic that you selected in
Week One of the course. Identify three to five
quantitative research studies from peer-reviewed
sources which were published within the last ten
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