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Hello everyone! I'm currently writing a systematic review and I just can't figure out the study design of one of the included studies. The study is from Davis et al. (2002) with the title "Swallowing with a tracheostomy tube in place: does cuff inflation matter?". The aim of the study was to...

Probability of getting into a business school is 10%,I have applied to 12 business schools,what is probability that i get accepted by atleast 1 of them? My solution as per Binomial Distribution:- Probability of success(p)=1/10...

I am struggling to work out how I should analyse my data. My current thinking is that a chi squared test of independence will work, however only if the data I have can be set out in the correct format. I am testing 2 IV's that are varied within each trial randomly, where each trial has a cue IV...

Hello all and thanks for any future responses. I am doing a study looking at whether three independent categorical/dichotomous variables (gender, Greek status, and class status (i.e. freshman vs senior)) influence a person's disordered eating behaviors and attitudes among college students...

Hi, I've got some data on deer habitat use across 4 seasons and 6 different habitat types. I would like to test whether habitat use differs between the seasons but I can't work out what stats test would be suitable. Is anyone able to help me out? Also - I am unsure whether to use the raw...

Hi all, I'm new to regressions and also new to posting here. My topic is: How have E-books Affected College Textbook Prices? My hypothesis is: H0: The CPI for college textbooks will fall with the introduction of the e-book because increased innovation and competition causes an...

Hey there, First off I'm hoping I'm posting this in the right place. I'm doing research where there is a patient group of n=9 that underwent our new treatment. Whilst there is a group of n=140 that underwent the regular treatment. Now my prof. wants me to find the 18 most matching...

Hi, I'm quite new to R and I need a little advise on whether multinomial logistic regression is right for what I'm hoping to do for my data. Basically, I've been given some camera trap data to work with. The data is non-normal and consists of 25 species documented over 30 different trap...

Hello, I am so stuck and do not know where to turn. I have raw data for The Domain Specific Hope Scale survey and have a sample size of 11 participants. the survey has 6 domain areas, with each containing 8 or 9 questions in each. I need to present the data, using SPSS software, in a way...

Hi, I've taken math course's up to Calc III and Diff Eq, but never a statistics course. So I was hoping this forum could help me. I am working with 10+years of temperature data taken from several loggers throughout a cave system. The loggers record temperature every 30mins, which I have...

Hello, I'm writing my thesis and I'm clueless about which statistic test I need to apply ( is it T-test, Chi-text, Anova …), I will do my ststistics on SPSS. In my thesis I have 2 sets (=2 groups) of patients with the same disease, one group gets a specific treatment , while the second group...

Hello, My team and I recently created an open project for people to create charts in a super easy way. I thought I would share it with this group for suggestions or how people like it. The project is statpedia.com, the new version was just released. We really want to create something...

Hi everyone, I am an English person who's never taken statistics (yikes, right?). Well, now I'm working a job where I need some ideas of what kinds of statistical analysis might be used to make sure that medical devices (heart monitors in this case) are working properly. I'm writing a...

This is on my final exam study guide for statistics. I have absolutely no idea how to do it Problem 1: Valerie Variance is taking her "no-time limit " final exam. As always, the exam has an infinite number of questions and the instructor gives no partial credit. Valerie being a diligent...

Hello, I am trying to write a report based on prediction models and my topic requires me to cover one global method(regression for example) and a local method( nearest neighbour for example). I do not quite understand the term global and local in this context. Some help to explain these terms...

Need Help Merging Two Files Into One Hi all, I am wondering what is the best way to approach to combine two data sets into one (if possible) OR how to run an analysis using the two. Here is my situation: 1st Data Set: has 400,000+ cases of projects. There are around 30 variables...

Hello! I am a second-year chemistry graduate student studying intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs). IDPs do not adopt a stable folded state at equilibrium, and instead sample an ensemble of conformations (structures). We have recently made use of a software program to generate conformational...

I first want to say that this is my first post so sorry if I put it in the wrong topic, second English isn't my mother tongue so sorry as well for bad grammar, word choice or sentence structure. Currently I'm doing a research about upcoming students and if they make a more conscious / aware...

Hey, I'm a highschool student finishing up with AP Statistics. In my final project, I am using the Mann-Whitney U Test to compare two un-normal data sets, but this test is beyond the scope of the course, and I have never really learned how to do it. The descriptions I have found on how to carry...

Genstat input - which structure should I use? Hi all, I'm doing a statistics unit as part of my uni degree and I'm having some trouble with an assignment question. We were given a set of data to analyse and I cannot work out which way to put it in genstat. All the options I've tried give the...