Statistical Analysis for Education and Psychology Researchers

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  • How have you dealt with missing values and does this affect your data summary?

  • How have you rounded your summary statistics for presentation in tables? What
    element of accuracy is implied?

  • Are you able to describe in a paragraph the main features of the data?

  • What appear to be the most important statistics?


By simply looking at the data distributions does there appear to be any association
between variables? To answer this you will need to compare a set of boxplots, for
example, a series of boxplots showing maths set against the four different variables of
self-concept (SELFC1 to SELFC4).


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