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ETearle

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A psychologist wanted to determine whether attitudes toward capital punishment were affected by religious commitment. He chose a sample of sixty people, thirty of whom were very religious and thirty of whom were not religious.. He then assessed the person's attitude toward capital punishment. Thirteen of the very religious people were opposed to capital punishment, whereas only eight of the not religious people were opposed. What would be the most appropriate statistical analysis for this experimental data?
 
  a. Bivariate regression
  b. One-way analysis of variance
  c. Correlation coefficient
  d. Chi-square test for independence

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What statistic is used to assess the degree of association between two nominal variables?
 
  a. The chi-square statistic
  b. Bivariate regression
  c. ANOVA
  d. Pearson's r


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Amiracle

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Reply #1 on: Jun 19, 2018
Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

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ETearle

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Reply 2 on: Jun 19, 2018
Excellent

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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