Solved by verified expert:Using the SPSS software, open the Afrobarometer dataset or the High School Longitudinal Study dataset (whichever you chose) from Week 2.Once you perform your confidence interval, review Chapter 5 and 11 of the Wagner text to understand how to copy and paste your output into your Word document. Choose an appropriate variable from Weeks 2 and 3 and calculate a confidence interval in SPSS. ( Note: In week 2 and 3 I used the following variables Variables, so please chose one ) X1SEX-T1 student’s SexX1MTHUTI -Scale of student’s Math utility For this Assignment: Write a 2- to 3-paragraph analysis of your results and include a copy and paste of the appropriate visual display of the data into your document. Based on the results of your data in this confidence interval Assignment, provide a brief explanation of what the implications for social change might be.
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Assignment: Introduction to Quantitative
Analysis: Confidence Intervals
In your Week 2 Assignment, you displayed data based on a categorical variable and
continuous variable from a specific dataset. In Week 3, you used the same variables as
in Week 2 to perform a descriptive analysis of the data. For this Assignment, you will
calculate a confidence interval in SPSS for one of the variables from your Week 2 and
Week 3 Assignments.
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To prepare for this Assignment:
Review the Learning Resources related to probability, sampling distributions, and
confidence intervals.
For additional support, review the Skill Builder: Confidence Intervals and the Skill
Builder: Sampling Distributions, which you can find by navigating back to your
Blackboard Course Home Page. From there, locate the Skill Builder link in the left
navigation pane.
Using the SPSS software, open the Afrobarometer dataset or the High School
Longitudinal Study dataset (whichever you chose) from Week 2.
Choose an appropriate variable from Weeks 2 and 3 and calculate a confidence interval
in SPSS. ( Note: In week 2 and 3 I used the following variables Variables, so please chose
one )
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X1SEX- T1 student’s Sex
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X1MTHUTI – Scale of student’s Math utility
Once you perform your confidence interval, review Chapter 5 and 11 of the Wagner text
to understand how to copy and paste your output into your Word document.
For this Assignment:
Write a 2- to 3-paragraph analysis of your results and include a copy and paste of the
appropriate visual display of the data into your document.
Based on the results of your data in this confidence interval Assignment, provide a brief
explanation of what the implications for social change might be.
Resources:
Frankfort-Nachmias, C., & Leon-Guerrero, A. (2018). Social statistics for a diverse society
(8th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Chapter 5, “The Normal Distribution” (pp. 128-150)
• Chapter 6, “Sampling and Sampling Distributions” (pp. 151-178)
• Chapter 7, “Estimation” (pp. 179-201)
Wagner, W. E. (2016). Using IBM® SPSS® statistics for research methods and social science
statistics (6th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Chapter 3, “Selecting and Sampling Cases”
• Chapter 5, “Charts and Graphs”
• Chapter 11, “Editing Output”
Magnusson, K. (n.d.). Welcome to Kristoffer Magnusson’s blog about R, Statistics,
Psychology, Open Science, Data Visualization [blog]. Retrieved from
http://rpsychologist.com/index.html
As you review this web blog, select the Interpreting Confidence Intervals – new d3.js
visualization link, once you select the link, follow the instructions to view the interactive for
confidence intervals. This interactive will help you to visualize and understand confidence
intervals.
Note: This is Kristoffer Magnusson’s personal blog and his views may not necessarily
reflect the views of Walden University faculty.
Walden University Library. (n.d.). Course Guide and Assignment Help for RSCH 8210.
Retrieved from http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/rsch8210
For help with this week’s research, see this Course Guide and related weekly assignment
resources.
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