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Safari File Edit View History Bookmarks Window Help MINDTAP Homework 5: Chapter S You are doing research with people that you can refer them to treatment You use a depression-screening tool caled the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), created by Dr. Aaron T. Beck. It is a widely used 21-tem muitiple-choice self-report inventory. Higher scores ndicate higher levels of depression Because being homeless is stresstul, you decide to use z-scores so that you can identifly those people who are at least one standard deviation more depressed than the typical person who is who are homeless. You want to be able to identify those who are depressed so Based on the testing of S0 people, the average score on the BD1 in your sample is 14 with a standard deviation of 2 The table that follows consists of the scores of five people that you tested who sleep in the same alcove at a Use the dropdown menus to complete the third colums of the table by selecting the r-score relative to your sampke that corresponds to the partio pants' Bot score BDI T-score Participant Original Score z-score Location Standardized Score 57.5 You are finding that the negative values and decimals of z-scores are ditficuit to explain to your staff, so you decide to convert the scores to T-scores. T-scores are standard led scores n mtsch,core oe so represents the mean and 10 indicates one standard deviation. Thus, a score of 60 is one standand deviation above the mean, while a score of 30 is two standard devistions below the mean Use the dropdown menus to complete the fourth column in the table 838 3

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as z score =(X-mean)/std deviation

and T score =50+z*10

theefore from above:

participant BDI original BDI z score T score 1 12 -1 40 2 13 -0.5 45 3 16.5 1.25 62.5 4 15.5 0.75 57.5 5 16 1 60

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