What is the difference between the one-sample t test and the independent samples t test?
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: A one-sample t test is used to compare one group of data to some benchmark, normally the population mean. An independent samples t test assesses whether the difference in means between two groups drawn from the same population exists in the population.
Learning Objective: 1: Differentiate between the one-sample t test and the independent samples t test.
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a. Responsiveness of the caregiver to infants' cries and other gestures of communication are crucial to infant development. b. Infants and children in orphanages who were provided scheduled care showed normal development. c. Many of the infants and children in orphanages who did not get responsive care became overweight. d. There are few differences between infants and children raised by their biological parents and their counterparts in orphanages.
Which technique was especially designed for students having difficulty with inferences?
A) reciprocal teaching B) QAR C) imaging D) monitoring
Adjusted group means are
A. Means across all groups when the covariate has been accounted for. B. Means across the covariate. C. Means across the groups that are significantly different. D. All the means added together.
Ethical pluralism refers to
A. the absence of moral standards B. the search for ethical diversity C. the creation of ethical consensus