Mana 420 Review Slides - Week 10
Mana 420 Review Slides - Week 10
Mana 420 Review Slides - Week 10
Testing hypotheses
1 = Interval or Ratio
Variable 2 = Interval or Ratio
Dependent variable
Statistical test
Nominal
(only 2 categories)
Interval or ratio
T-test
Nominal
(more than 2
categories)
Interval or ratio
One-way ANOVA
Interval or ratio
(only 1 independent
variable)
Interval or ratio
Correlation coefficient
Interval or ratio
(more than 1
independent variable)
Interval or ratio
Multiple regression
2.
3.
4.
Write up results
Include
All
means
The test statistics value (t(t test), F(ANOVA),
r(correlation))
The p value
Whether the test was significant, marginally
significant or not significant
Whether the hypothesis was supported or not
External Validity
Giving money to overweight workers can be a good incentive for them to drop
those extra pounds, and cost-effective for companies, according to a new study.
Researchers found that people paid to trim down lost more weight than hefty
employees who had not been given a financial boost to get fit.
We had a few people who lost a lot of weight, said Eric Finkelstein of the nonprofit research organization in North Carolina. He and his colleagues divided
207 people, who had an average weight of 200 pounds into three groups to
compare their weight loss. The first group was not offered any financial incentive
to slim down. But people in the second group received $7 for every percentage
point of body weight lost, while the third group was offered $14.
The researchers, who reported their findings in the Journal of Occupational and
Environmental Medicine, discovered that after three months people in the $14
group lost an average of 4.7 pounds, compared to three pounds in the $7 group.
People who had not been paid lost about two pounds.
[Globe & Mail, 2007]