Comparing Means

Week 6 Assignment For this assignment you will use the Week_06_Assignment_Data.csv file, which can be found on the Week 6 Assignment page in Canvas. This is a hypothetical dataset. Assume these data were collected from a representative sample of students recently admitted to a bachelor’s degree program at one large online university. The dataset includes the following variables: Student_ID: A unique nominal-level identification number assigned to each student Admit_Status: Whether the student was admitted as a first-year student (FYR) or transfer student (TRN) Age: Student’s self-reported age in years FirstGen: Whether the student self-reported being a first-generation college student (Y) or not a first-generation college student (N) Primary_Degree: Whether the student’s primary degree is a Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), or Bachelor of Science (BS) Criteria: Use JASP to compute descriptive statistics and to construct graphs Interpret descriptive statistics and graphs in relation to the assumptions of an inferential test Write hypothesis statements for a given scenario Use JASP to conduct an inferential statistical analysis Interpret the statistical significance of a hypothesis test Summarize the results of a hypothesis test in APA style Scenario: The admissions office at a large online university wants to know if students admitted to their bachelor’s degrees program as first-year students (FYR) and transfer students (TRN) differ in terms of their ages. In JASP, compute descriptive statistics (i.e., sample size, mean, and standard deviation) and construct histograms of the Age variable split by Admit_Status. Explain why a Welch t test is an appropriate analysis to conduct using these data to address the admissions office’s research question. Foremost we have to acknowledge that age in our data is a continuous dependent variable. This automatically means we have to use a t-test since they are made for continuous data. The welch t test i...