Friday, December 4, 2009

Reporting Descriptive Statistics

When reporting desriptive statistics like beta, standard error, etc... in our APA table when the number is 0.001 (for example) would we insert 0.00 or would we include 0.001?

Also, although it doesn't need to be APA, for multicollinearity statistics do you want us to give the specific numbers or just whether the numbers meet the cutoffs?

When significance is .001 and we do not know what the numbers mean when we click on them, what should we report p < .001 or p < .01?

Thank you so much!

4 comments:

KGL said...

Hannah--

I am asking Sung the first two because he makes the final call for those type of things and i dont' want to give you conflicting responses.

Your final question though, i am curious more about. I think this is what you're asking...When you see that your p-value is equal to .001 on the output, you then click on it, is this when you don't understand? What does it say? Does it give you something with E times something?

Anonymous said...

Katie,

I don't have my output on SPPS any more but, yes, when I click on the p-value in SPSS and it gives me an E...number. We never went over what that meant so I didn't know what to do with it.

KGL said...

THat means it's a really really small number so it has to multiply to the E to count how many zeroes...

Does that help you think about the number? and what you would report?

KGL said...

Ok...for your other questions here are Sung's responses:

1. 0.00 not 0.001

2. Copy and paste the table that lists muliticollinearity statistics and state whether they meet the cutoffs.