What statistical test would you conduct for each example below? a) You want to d

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What statistical test would you conduct for each example below?

a) You want to determine if there is an association between age and “risk of falling.” You have three age groups and you’ve grouped “risk of falling” into low/high.

b) You want to see if there’s an association between number of days exercised in the past month (0–31 days) and body mass index.

c) You’d like to compare daily water intake (ounces) across the four seasons (summer, fall, winter, spring).

d) You’d like to compare nurses’ salaries (not in categories) between two different hospitals.

Explanation / Answer

a ) For this particular example , a Chi-Square test of independence will be appropriate .

b ) For this example , we have to conduct a test on the correlation coefficient between number of days exercised in the past month (0–31 days) and body mass index .

c ) For this example , we have to conduct a one - way ANOVA .

d ) For this example , we have to conduct a two - sample t test .

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