Modeling Bivariate Relationships

Identify and conduct the most appropriate analysis for a given research topic.

Learning Path

Where we’ve been

  • Visually exploring relationships between two variables by creating appropriate plots to assess how the distribution of a primary outcome (response/dependent) variable changes according to the level of a predictor (explanatory/independent/covariate) variable.
  • Learning how probability is used to make inferential statements about parameters

Where we’re at

Ready to make some statistical statements about relationships between variables.

Objectives

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Fully conduct the following statistical analyses: Two sample T-Test of means, ANOVA, Chi-squared test of Association, Correlation

Learning Materials

Slides (Will open in full screen. Right click to open in a new tab)

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lec07a - Choosing

lec07b T-test

lec07c - ANOVA

lec07d - Chi2

lec07e Correlation

📚 Reading

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Topic Overview

IMS - Chapter 20

IMS - Chapter 22

PMA6 Chapter 6

ASCN Ch 5

🎦 Video

Pre-recorded lectures are available in Canvas. Some recordings are from a prior semester but the slides are mostly the same.

Assignments

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HW07 Describing Relationships

Assessment

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Quiz 07

Quiz 08