statistical analysis

I am working using secondary data that was originally collected for another purpose. The data is from a teen pregnancy program among Latino youth. The program had a control group and an intervention group and collected baseline and follow up data from both control and intervention. the...

Hi everyone, This is my first post. :wave: I am currently working on a project to investigate the reason for why these providers are outliers on the dataset on a whole. I am finding it very tricky to find statistical methods that "investigate" outliers- as in show you why they are outliers...

Hey, can anyone recommend a test for the following problems. 1) Say I have repeated measurements x_1,...,x_n and y_1,...,y_n such that each measurement may depend on the past. How can I test whether the means in both tests are equal, i.e. mean of x_1,...,x_n equal to mean of y_1,...,y_n ? I...

I need some help desperately. I would like to find out whether there is any difference between three conditions using a t test (I dont know if I need an independent or paired t test), and have tried this in SPSS but cannot seem to make sense of it. Basically I have 6 participants who watched...

My research hypothesis claims that there is a relationship between my independent variable, student’s economic status and the dependent variable, SOL test scores. the null hypothesis states that there is no relationship between the two variables. This is quantitative, and it is discrete. This...

Hi! i'm currently working for an online betting company and i would need some help on how to come up with risk indications. I believe some statistical tools may help me assess the gravity of risk of a certain event or user. For example: 1. a certain player bets on an average of 100 per bet...

Hi, I'm doing a hypothetical test, so if it doesn't make theoretical sense, just ignore please! :D The study is longitudinal one lasting a year in which memory skills of children are assessed with a test quarterly. So at the start, 4 months, 8 months and at the end. The study is...

I am hoping some really smart folks can answer this question for me and provide some sage and learned advice to help me finish the last piece of my PhD dissertation research. Background: I have completed a data study, using a Likert Scale (1-5), on importance of an element within an...

Hi We have been working on a project where we have 2 or more trading agents on a market stock and for the outcome we have the profits that each trader generated after running 1000 times or more each market session. We need to statistically compare the profits of this traders to know which one...

Firstly...I'm an absolute stats novice. I am assessing the urinary toxicity of a procedure by comparing baseline and 6 week International Prostate Symptom Scores (IPSS) for 10 patients. I am applying the wilcoxon signed rank test - however through all my "googling" there appears to be 2...

I know this is a iff condition,and the reverse is easy to prove.But I am having some difficulty to prove that all non negative definite matrices are variance covariance matrix.From what i have collected from wikipedia,I tried to prove it this way. Let A be a non negative definite matrix...

I am taking a database management course with a focus on relational databases as part of the requirements of a degree program. One of the course requirements is to apply relational database techniques to a case study. In other words, students have been asked to identify a hypothesis and research...

I'm doing a summer research project on trends of anxiety and depression. Unfortunately, my preceptor has disappeared in the meantime and I'm left to fend for myself. I've done an extensive literature review, and now have to develop a Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP). While I understand that there...

I am not good at statistics that is why I am seeking help in this forum. Thanks for any help in advance. My research hypothesis is Student will score high on optimism, this optimism will be highly correlated with more positive attitude towards fat children, and it will further enhance their...

Dear all, I'm currently reading papers of statistical modelling. I encountered with the concepts of uncorrelatedness and independence. I understand the definitioins, but I am wondering what are the real effects they can make in statistical analysis? For example, I have a dataset and I use...

Hi everyone, I'm stuck on my dissertation which is due next week. I'm a business major student and my project is a comparative research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) between Chinese and German firms. According to my literature review, it's quite obvious that German firms have much...

Hi, I posted previously, but I haven't got any response, I assume its more appropriate to post in this forum, that's why I'm posting again. How do I test the relationship between Govt. Spending on Police and the Number of robberies (annually) I have 51 data points. I've done Pearson's, I...

Hi, I need to perform a t-test to determine the relationship between US govt spending on Police and the number of Rapes annually. So I have 53 data points (53 years each variable) Firstly, can I use a t-test for this data? My first problem is that I don't get whether I should call this a one...

The decision support is based on the query computations on the existing database. The interactive query is the basic need of end users. The accurate and complete retrieval conditions can help user get the required data from the database. At present, there are two kinds of interactive query...