Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
Third Edition
Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
- Explain why ordinal data are computed using nonparametric tests.
- Compute the one-sample and related-samples sign tests and interpret the results.
- Compute the normal approximation for the sign test.
- Compute the Wilcoxon signed-ranks T test and interpret the results.
- Compute the normal approximation for the Wilcoxon signed-ranks T test.
- Compute the Mann-Whitney U test and interpret the results.
- Compute the normal approximation for the Mann-Whitney U test.
- Compute the Kruskal-Wallis H test and interpret the results.
- Compute the Friedman test and interpret the results.
- Summarize the results of nonparametric tests for ordinal data in APA format.
- Compute the related-samples sign test, the Wilcoxon signed-ranks T test, the Mann-Whitney U test, the Kruskal-Wallis H test, and the Friedman test using SPSS.