Statistics / Research Methods Capstone Assignment

Correlations

1. The income inequality and the frequency of prayer in a given country are positively

correlated. Countries with higher level of income inequality exhibit higher frequency of

prayer.

2. I guess the correlation coefficient is 65%.

3. Strong positive correlation exists between the level of income inequality and the frequency of

prayer in different countries (r=0.65).

Understanding Results Sections:

4. The mean number of PTSD symptoms patients has before treatment was 29.56 with a

standard deviation of 2.96, while at 3-month follow-up the mean was 9,

with a standard deviation of 7.78.

5. The drop of the mean of the PTSD symptoms from 29.56 to 9 implies that the treatment

program is very effective in terms of relieving the symptoms of PTSD. There is significant

decrease in the symptoms from the pre-treatment to the 3-month follow up.

6. T-test was used to see if the improvements were statistically significant.

7. The result of the t-test revealed that the improvement or the reduction of the symptoms from

pre-treatment period to the 3-month follow up is statistically significant at 0.5% level of

significance. This implies that the probability that the difference happened by chance is 0.5%.

In other words, we can be 99.5% confident that they are statistically significant.

8. There are 124 participants involved in the study.

9. There is a positive relationship between the number of drinks women consumed in the past

90 days and their rating of how important it was to change their drinking. This means that

women who drink more find it more important to change their drinking compared to women

who drink less.

10. The relationship between the number of drinks consumed and the rating of how important it

was to change drinking is significant based on the Pearson’s correlation coefficient of 0.23,

which is significant at 5% level of significance.

The relationship is positive but weak since the coefficient is 0.23.

11. The Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was utilized to determine whether the use contraception

is significantly different at various motivational stages. The result of the test revealed that

there is a significant difference in the use of contraception at different motivational stages at

1% level of significance.

12. Post hoc analysis was employed to identify the specific motivational stage is significantly

related to a woman’s use of contraception. Based on the result, it was found that the

significant relationship in the use of contraception and pre-contemplation stage. Higher levels

of unprotected sex arise in the pre-contemplation stage than other stages of change.