LibGuides: EDR-8202 v6: Module 7 Resources

Module 7 Required Resources

Textbooks

Using Statistics in the Social and Health Sciences with SPSS and Excel
Abbott, M. (2017). Using statistics in the social health sciences with SPSS and Excel. Wiley & Sons.

This is the first main text reading for this week. This chapter (Ch. 14) discusses Chi Square test.

IBM SPSS Essentials: Managing and Analyzing Social Sciences Data
Kulas, J., Roji, R., & Smith, A. (2021). IBM SPSS essentials: Managing and analyzing Social Sciences data. John Wiley & Sons Inc.

This is the second main text reading for this week. This chapter (Ch. 12) discusses nonparametric analysis.

Other Resources

Divorce-StudentVersion.sav
You will use this data file to complete this week’s assignment.

Friedman Test
Richardson, J. (2018). Friedman test. In B. B. Frey (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of educational research, measurement, and evaluation (pp. 709-712). SAGE.

This source describes the non-parametric version of the repeated measures analysis of variance. The Friedman test is used when one or more of the repeated measures ANOVA assumptions are not met.
Kruskal Willis
Richardson, J. (2018). Kruskal Wallis. In B. B. Frey (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of educational research, measurement, and evaluation (pp. 937-939). SAGE. http://dx.doi.org.proxy1.ncu.edu/10.4135/9781506326139.n377

This source describes the non-parametric version of the one-way analysis of variance. The Kruskal-Wallis test is used when one or more of the ANOVA assumptions are not met.
Mann-Whitney test
Richardson, J. (2018). Mann-Whitney test. In B. B. Frey (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of educational research, measurement, and evaluation(pp. 1005-1008). SAGE. http://dx.doi.org.proxy1.ncu.edu/10.4135/9781506326139.n408

This source describes the non-parametric version of the independent samples t - test. The Mann-Whitney test is used when one or more of the t - test assumptions are not met.
Spearman Correlation Coefficient
McHugh, M. (2018). Spearman correlation coefficient. In B. B. Frey (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of educational research, measurement, and evaluation (pp. 1555-1558). SAGE.

This correlation statistic is used to measure the strength of association between two variables measured at the ordinal level which do not meet Pearson Correlation Coefficient assumptions.
Wilcoxon
Coleman, J. (2018). Wilcoxon signed ranks test. In B. B. Frey (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of educational research, measurement, and evaluation (pp. 1815-1816). SAGE.

This source describes the non-parametric version of the dependent samples t- test, which is the Wilcoxon signed test. The major assumption of this test is that the data are at least at the ordinal level of measurement.

Module 7 Supplemental Resources

ASC Statistics Resources
Academic Success Center (ASC). (2024). Statistics resources. Northcentral University.

This page in the ASC includes all of the statistics resources curated by NU's Academic Success Center. Use the headings on the left side of this ASC page to navigate to your particular area of need.
APA Formatting Guide for Statistics
American Psychological Association. (2022). American Psychological Association Style (7th ed.) numbers and statistics guide. American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000

This resource gives a summary of how to format statistics in APA 7th edition formatting.
Presenting Statistics in Text
Academic Success Center (ASC). (2024). Presenting statistics in text. Northcentral University.

This page from the ASC offers support on how to use appropriately the different elements of statistics within text for reports, papers, assignments, etc.