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dmcintosh

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on: Jun 20, 2018
Is it more meaningful to find a significant difference with a relatively small sample size or with a relatively large sample size?
 
  a. It points to a more robust difference if you have a small sample size.
  b. It points to a more substantial difference if you have a large sample size.
  c. The two differences are equally substantial.
  d. We can't tell anything about the size of the effect from what is given here.

Question 2

If we have two related samples, the power of our test will
 
  a. increase as the correlation between the two samples increases.
  b. increase as the correlation between the two samples decreases.
  c. be at its maximum when the correlation is zero.
  d. The correlation is irrelevant.


joanwhite

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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

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