psychology

Task

Description and Outcomes

Location

<Fill in the location of the data with specific details – The complete URL, website, navigation path, etc.>

Obtaining the data

<Fill in how you obtain the data – Download, contact owners, fill out a form, etc.>

Date Retrieved

<Fill in the date you retrieved the data.>

Query Parameters

<Fill in any query parameters, such as date range, or NA if not applicable.>

Task

Description and Outcomes

Identify variables needed.

<Fully describe each of the variables involved, including: variable name, precise definition, type (ratio, ordinal, nominal, etc.), and constraints.>

Perform descriptive statistics and identify issues or outliers.

<Create summary statistics (e.g. box-plots), identify outliers.>

Clean data if necessary.

<Use recoding, subsetting, converting to common units, systematically addressing missing or invalid data.>

Create a final dataset, save, and backup.

<Name the final dataset something you can remember. Back up and record where you have the data backed up.>

Hypotheses

What is your hypothesis or hypotheses?

Variables

For each of your variables involved in a hypothesis, identify if they are independent, dependent, or control.

Analysis

For each hypothesis, what analyses are you using? Include both descriptive and inferential analyses and justification.

Outcome

For each analysis, what was the outcome according to SPSS? What were the critical values or confidence intervals?

<Fill in first hypothesis here.>

<Add additional rows for additional hypotheses if needed.>