Assignment #1 DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS & COMPARISON OF MEANS

SSCI 3910

ADVANCE DATA ANALYSIS Faculty of Social Science & Humanities

Fall 2018 Mark Breakdown – Assignment #1-OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT

(UNIVARIATE, ZERO-ORDER CROSSTABS & ANOVA FAMILY) 20% of Final Grade

Student i.d. ____________________________

Question # Task Possible Points

Score

Part A SPSS: Univariate, Crosstabs & 2-Way Factorial ANOVA Using point and click run APPROPRIATE univariate stats on all original and recoded variables, a 2x2 zero-order crosstabulation that is significant & 2-Way Factorial ANOVA +Post hoc test for RACE, EDUC & HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONS

15.00

Part A & B: INTERPRETATION

Introduction: Includes purpose of each test; provide any research questions and hypotheses for crosstabs and 2 way factorial ANOVA with correct language/terms for each test as per lecture notes and lab notes

5.00

RESULTS UNIVARIATE: Discussion of univariate statistics for all variables in light of levels of measurement and appropriate statistics, original and recodes with select cases; logic/justification of recodes; explains why and how recoding was done; summary of results of univariate descriptive statistics discussing frequency and valid %’s; technical and substantive interpretations of all variables. (5 MARKS) RESULTS CROSS-TABULATIONS: Identification of DV, IV, and control variables; cross-tabs (including conditional distributions column %, chi- square significance, strength of association) and elaborations (including conditional distributions, column %’s chi-square significance, strength of association and relationship to original cross-tab (10 MARKS) RESULTS 2 WAY FACTORIAL ANOVA: Uses appropriate headings and subheadings and provides technical and substantive interpretations of ALL the appropriate statistics in your own words (i.e., factor, grand mean, average differences, minimum/maximum values, post hoc test, main effects, interaction effect, statistical significance). (10 MARKS)

25.00

Conclusions & Presentation: Overall, summary of main findings without using #’s…what can you conclude about each test, average differences, the effects, summary of who had highest and/or lowest means, whether the findings were expected, and why; overall presentation of work.

5.00

Lateness Deductions (if any, 2 marks/day): _______________ FINAL GRADE OUT OF 50 MARKS __________. COMMENTS