PSY-3305

Price, P. C., Jhangiani, R., & Chiang, I-C. A. (2015). Chapter 12: Descriptive statistics. Conducting your analysis. Research methods in psychology. BCcampus, BC Open Textbook Project.
Read chapter 12. This brief eBook chapter provides a great overview of how to prepare your data for data analysis. There are also three questions presented at the end of the chapter that will be a great way to prepare for this week’s assignment!

Toepoel, V. (2016). Processing and cleaning the data. In Toepoel, V. Doing surveys online (pp. 175-191). 55 City Road, London: SAGE Publications Ltd. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781473967243
This article provides a detailed overview of how to prepare and clean data prior to analysis. The five exercises at the end of the article are a great way to prepare for this week’s assignment!

Verma, J. P., & Abdel-Salam, A. G. (2019). Chapter 4: Assumptions in parametric tests. Testing statistical assumptions in research. (pp. 65–74). ProQuest Ebook Central.
This quick, 6-page read will explain how to assess normality for the Week 5 assignment. You can stop reading at the section titled, “4.2.2 Randomness”

Abbott, M. L. (2016). Chapter 11: Correlations. Using statistics in the social and health sciences with SPSS and Excel (pp. 334–339). Wiley Online Library.
Read only the five pages listed. This quick, 5-page read provides an overview of how to test for linearity between two variables. The SPSS instructions are included as well. This reading will help you with assessing linearity for the Week 5 Assignment.

Engineering Statistics Handbook (n.d.). Scatter plot.
The website provides examples of some different results from scatter plots. Make sure to click on all ten of the examples. This will be helpful in determining whether you have linearity in your assignment!