Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
Third Edition
Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
- Distinguish between nonparametric and parametric tests.
- Explain how the test statistic is computed for a chi-square test.
- Calculate the degrees of freedom for the chi-square goodness-of-fit test and locate critical values in the chi-square table.
- Compute the chi-square goodness-of-fit test and interpret the results.
- Identify the assumption and the restriction of expected frequency size for the chi-square test.
- Calculate the degrees of freedom for the chi-square test for independence and locate critical values in the chi-square table.
- Compute the chi-square test for independence and interpret the results.
- Compute and interpret effect size for the chi-square test for independence.
- Summarize the results of a chi-square test in APA format.
- Compute the chi-square goodness-of-fit test and the chi-square test for independence using SPSS.