Experimental Design B/C

[Anomaly]

What does the rubric mean in the quantitative data section where it says "Report most relevant data"?

Making a presentation on expd for middle schoolers and I come across that and have no idea what it means.

That's the condensed data table with important data such as averages.

ah alright that makes sense thanks

[Jacobi]

What does the rubric mean in the quantitative data section where it says "Report most relevant data"?

Making a presentation on expd for middle schoolers and I come across that and have no idea what it means.

I think it means that you should report data that is relevant to the hypothesis.

For example, if you're doing an XP with ball drop height v. drop time, you wouldn't report bounce height.

[pal_420]

What do the rules mean by age-appropriate statistic? Does this mean we can't have more complex stuff like ANOVA?

[Jacobi]

What do the rules mean by age-appropriate statistic? Does this mean we can't have more complex stuff like ANOVA?

I think it means that you shouldn't be doing mode or range for Division C.
Who knows? You might want Pearson Correlation.

Also, how would ANOVA even apply to XPD data?

[nicholasmaurer]

What do the rules mean by age-appropriate statistic? Does this mean we can't have more complex stuff like ANOVA?

I think it means that you shouldn't be doing mode or range for Division C.
Who knows? You might want Pearson Correlation.

Also, how would ANOVA even apply to XPD data?

Many proctors will be unfamiliar with ANOVA, so I would not recommend using it for your statistical analysis. It is certainly not necessary to do so.

At the Division C level, I would generally recommend you choose either Pearson's correlation coefficient (r and r^2) or Student's t-test. These will cover almost every scenario and are easy to calculate using a graphing calculator. It is important that you understand and interpret the meaning of the results, rather than simply reporting them.

Mean and standard deviation will almost always be the best measures of center and spread to report. Occasionally, median might be preferred, but you're unlikely to have a sufficient sample size to know if your data is skewed.

[dxu46]

What do the rules mean by age-appropriate statistic? Does this mean we can't have more complex stuff like ANOVA?

I think it means that you shouldn't be doing mode or range for Division C.
Who knows? You might want Pearson Correlation.

Also, how would ANOVA even apply to XPD data?

Many proctors will be unfamiliar with ANOVA, so I would not recommend using it for your statistical analysis. It is certainly not necessary to do so.

At the Division C level, I would generally recommend you choose either Pearson's correlation coefficient (r and r^2) or Student's t-test. These will cover almost every scenario and are easy to calculate using a graphing calculator. It is important that you understand and interpret the meaning of the results, rather than simply reporting them.

Mean and standard deviation will almost always be the best measures of center and spread to report. Occasionally, median might be preferred, but you're unlikely to have a sufficient sample size to know if your data is skewed.

What about for division B? A lot of the statistics would be much more simpler with an algorithm on a graphing calculator, but that's taken away.

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I think it means that you shouldn't be doing mode or range for Division C.
Who knows? You might want Pearson Correlation.

Also, how would ANOVA even apply to XPD data?

Many proctors will be unfamiliar with ANOVA, so I would not recommend using it for your statistical analysis. It is certainly not necessary to do so.

At the Division C level, I would generally recommend you choose either Pearson's correlation coefficient (r and r^2) or Student's t-test. These will cover almost every scenario and are easy to calculate using a graphing calculator. It is important that you understand and interpret the meaning of the results, rather than simply reporting them.

Mean and standard deviation will almost always be the best measures of center and spread to report. Occasionally, median might be preferred, but you're unlikely to have a sufficient sample size to know if your data is skewed.

What about for division B? A lot of the statistics would be much more simpler with an algorithm on a graphing calculator, but that's taken away.

I would say mean and standard deviation are fairly easy to calculate by hand, but you could also use the mean absolute deviation which takes the absolute values instead of squaring and then square rooting (even easier by hand!).

[Jacobi]

I think it means that you shouldn't be doing mode or range for Division C.
Who knows? You might want Pearson Correlation.

Also, how would ANOVA even apply to XPD data?

Many proctors will be unfamiliar with ANOVA, so I would not recommend using it for your statistical analysis. It is certainly not necessary to do so.

At the Division C level, I would generally recommend you choose either Pearson's correlation coefficient (r and r^2) or Student's t-test. These will cover almost every scenario and are easy to calculate using a graphing calculator. It is important that you understand and interpret the meaning of the results, rather than simply reporting them.

Mean and standard deviation will almost always be the best measures of center and spread to report. Occasionally, median might be preferred, but you're unlikely to have a sufficient sample size to know if your data is skewed.

What about for division B? A lot of the statistics would be much more simpler with an algorithm on a graphing calculator, but that's taken away.

Given that they say "age-appropriate", they would expect mean, median, range, mode???? , maybe Standard Deviation. Those formulae are easy to memorize and execute on a 4-function or non-programmable scientific calculator.

[dxu46]

Many proctors will be unfamiliar with ANOVA, so I would not recommend using it for your statistical analysis. It is certainly not necessary to do so.

At the Division C level, I would generally recommend you choose either Pearson's correlation coefficient (r and r^2) or Student's t-test. These will cover almost every scenario and are easy to calculate using a graphing calculator. It is important that you understand and interpret the meaning of the results, rather than simply reporting them.

Mean and standard deviation will almost always be the best measures of center and spread to report. Occasionally, median might be preferred, but you're unlikely to have a sufficient sample size to know if your data is skewed.

What about for division B? A lot of the statistics would be much more simpler with an algorithm on a graphing calculator, but that's taken away.

I would say mean and standard deviation are fairly easy to calculate by hand, but you could also use the mean absolute deviation which takes the absolute values instead of squaring and then square rooting (even easier by hand!).

Alright, thanks.

Just wondering, are there any ES's out there on the forums? I'm curious on how certain sections are judged (i.e. Analysis, Qualitative, Statistics)

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What about for division B? A lot of the statistics would be much more simpler with an algorithm on a graphing calculator, but that's taken away.

I would say mean and standard deviation are fairly easy to calculate by hand, but you could also use the mean absolute deviation which takes the absolute values instead of squaring and then square rooting (even easier by hand!).

Alright, thanks.

(Also see Jacobi's post, although I'm skeptical of range being a good indicator of anything, and you probably won't have a mode)