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Component 1: Research methods - Descriptive and inferential statistics
Quick questions on Descriptive and inferential statistics - OCR A-Level Psychology research methods
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what is the level of measurement (nominal, ordinal or interval)?Show answer
The five OCR tests are the sign test (difference, related, nominal), Wilcoxon (difference, related, ordinal), Mann-Whitney U (difference, unrelated, ordinal), chi-square (, difference or association, unrelated, nominal) and Spearman's rho (correlation, ordinal). :::
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Name and justify the inferential test for ordinal data from a repeated measures design testing a difference. [3 marks]
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Explain what is meant by a Type 1 error. [2 marks]
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A researcher uses rather than . Explain one effect of this choice. [3 marks]
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