OK, everyone. My IT expert has told me that an integral part of getting the website out there is to have a blog. I find blogs to be self-serving pedestals where people proselytize everything about themselves for sake of attention. This will NOT be the purpose of my blog. I built the website to help people conduct research. So, instead of embellishing my vanity using this technological medium, "IT expert" and I decided it would be pertinent to give little "statistical snippets" each day. You all can tell me to stop or to keep going. Here we go...
Statistical nugget #1: ALWAYS check your continuous variables for normality before running any statistical analyses. An outlier, defined as any observation that is more than 3.29 standard deviations away from the mean of your continuous variable, will artificially inflate or deflate your t-values. Use skewness and kurtosis statistics to assess the assumption of normality for each continuous variable in your dataset. Visit www.scalelive.com/statistics-engine.html to learn more about normality and running these analyses in SPSS.
Statistical nugget #1: ALWAYS check your continuous variables for normality before running any statistical analyses. An outlier, defined as any observation that is more than 3.29 standard deviations away from the mean of your continuous variable, will artificially inflate or deflate your t-values. Use skewness and kurtosis statistics to assess the assumption of normality for each continuous variable in your dataset. Visit www.scalelive.com/statistics-engine.html to learn more about normality and running these analyses in SPSS.
