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Explain the relationship between the alpha level (or significance level) and Type I error. What is a Type II error? How are Type I and Type II errors different?

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Answer the following questions, covering material from Ch. 13 of Methods in Behavioral Research: 1. Define inferential statistics and how researchers use inferential statistics to draw conclusions from sample data. 2. Define probability and discuss how it relates to the concept of statistical significance. 3. A researcher is studying the effects of yoga on depression. […]

How do the social institutions of our country (e.g., schools, the healthcare system, the economy, religious organizations) play a role in encouraging social conformity, as well as social deviance?

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We examine why most people tend to conform in most of their social interactions, while others deviate from the existing social norms. Why do people sometimes feel that they need to socially conform to what is going on around them, even if they do not want to do so? How do the social institutions of […]

Conduct a linear regression to predict the number of times a boy would strike a classmate from the number of times the boy hit a bobo doll. From the output, identify the following:

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Part A       Some questions in Part A require that you access data from Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics. This data is available on the student website under the Student Text Resources link.       Use the following data to answer Questions 1a and 1b.    Total no. of problems correct (out […]