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D2SPSSIntermediateAbout 30 min to complete

One-sample and independent-samples t-test

What question each t-test answers.

Slides · Dataset

About 30 minutes to complete

Enrol to open the slides and download the data.

What this module covers

what question each t-test answers; the four assumptions and how to check each; Levene's test and the two rows of SPSS output — how to know which one is yours; the full menu path and dialog; reading the output; Cohen's d and how to interpret its magnitude; the confidence interval as the more useful number; APA reporting sentence.

By the end of it

  • What question each t-test answers
  • The four assumptions and how to check each
  • Levene's test and the two rows of SPSS output — how to know which one is yours
  • The full menu path and dialog
  • Reading the output
  • Cohen's d and how to interpret its magnitude
  • The confidence interval as the more useful number
  • APA reporting sentence

The dataset

Antenatal care and birth outcome — Sigma teaching dataset

A teaching dataset of 300 cases, generated from a fixed seed so every figure in the module reproduces exactly.

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