Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Sample size & descriptive statistics

I was about to write up my results section for the homework and noticed that the homework handout mentions surveying 240 college students, while my SPSS output looks like it has a sample size of 371, where F(2, 368) = xxx.xx for model 1. Was this a typo on the handout, or am I missing something?

Also, do we need to include descriptive statistics in our results write up? Thanks!

2 comments:

Mari said...

I initially dropped a big chunk of the sample in preparation for your NEXT homework assignment, but the data set I eventually posted did not have those folks dropped...so you are right that there are far more than 240.

You need not include descriptives for this writeup, as what I want you to focus on is only PART of a Results section where you present the specific analyses you conducted to test your hypotheses. Normally you would provide descriptives in a different section of the Results...

Amy said...

ok, great. thanks so much for the prompt reply!