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Week 11: Individual Work
Iletha Miller
MAN5910
Shondria Woods-Mcafee
December 25, 2015
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Often, researchers are interested in testing differences in mean scores between groups or in
comparing how two groups’ scores are distributed across possible response categories. A variety
of bivariate statistical tests can be used in these situations.
Identify what tests of difference are appropriate in the following situations. Justify your
responses.
•Average campaign contributions (in dollars) to a marketing campaign for healthy living for men
is to be compared to contributions to such a campaign for women.
•Average contributions (in dollars) to campaigns for healthy living for people who are 20-30
years old, 30-40 years old, and 40-60 years old are to be compared to each other.
•Human resource managers and chief executive officers have responded “yes,” “no,” or “not
sure” to an attitude question. The HR and CEO responses are to be compared.
•One-half of a sample received an incentive in a mail survey while the other half did not. A
comparison of response rates is desired.
•A researcher believes that married men will push the grocery cart when grocery shopping with
their wives. How would the hypothesis be tested?
•A manager wishes to compare the job performance of a salesperson before ethics training with
the performance of that same salesperson after ethics training.
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Assignment should be four pages in length.
For citation guidelines, please refer to the table in the APA Style section of the syllabus
Reference
Zikmund, W. G., Babin, B. J., Carr, J. C., Griffin, M. (03/2012). Business Research Methods, 9e,
9th Edition. Retrieved November 26, 2015, from
https://everest.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781285529073/
