Posted by
PsyDStats on
Mar 11, 2018; 6:47pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/2-Variables-7-cases-10-observations-Simple-tp5735614p5735680.html
Okay, so I've dabbled a little and successfully confused myself even more.
Let me boil things down.
As I mentioned, I am interested to know if there's a correlation between
Anxiety (AN) and Hyperactivity (HA). Does HA go up when AN goes up? Aside
from being a very small N, the data also are not normally distributed, so
I've been working with nonparametric measures.
Based on the suggestions so far, I ran the means for each student for the
two variables. I re-ran the Spearman, Kendall's, and Somer's and found that
there was a very poor correlation between AN and HA.
I structured the data:
Mean_AN Mean_HA
St_1 10.33 10.00
St_2 28.67 14.83
St_3 26.17 16.67
St_4 25.10 26.30
St_5 20.50 22.30
St_6 41.50 25.70
St_7 31.75 30.50
If there were no data points missing (those pesky 0's in my data set), and
if the N was more substantial, and if I had only kept up with my piano
lessons as a kid and I were now conducting at the Met instead of a doctoral
student in psychology, would you say that I've chosen the correct measures
for my data set and structured it properly in SPSS? Would you say that there
is a chance the outcomes of the procedures I've run are useful to me in
accepting or rejecting the Null Hypothesis, which in this case is that I
should go back to piano (My mother's null hypothesis that I would amount to
Null if I gave up the piano)?
Seriously, thanks for your thoughtful feedback.
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