Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences, Global Edition
Summary of all lectures from the Stats 2 course at the VU, psychology year 2. Includes lecture notes, examples and all chapters from Agresti & Finlay that are required for this course.
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Statistics 2.0
Exam: Wednesday 27 t h of March, 2019
INDEX
1. Rehearsing Statistics 1 2
® The basis 2
® Testing 6
2. Relations between two, three and more variables 8
® Simple linear regression 8
® Multivariate relations 11
3. Multiple regression 13
4. Analysis of variance with 1 factor 19
® ANOVA 1: Testing hypotheses & confidence intervals 19
® ANOVA 2: Effect sizes, dummy regression model & repeated measures ANOVA 23
5. Analysis of variance with more factors; analysis of covariance 26
® Two-way ANOVA: Analysis of variance with two factors 26
® ANCOVA: Analysis of variance with one factor and one covariate 32
6. Modelbuliding and assumptions 35
7. The Generalized Linear Model 40
8. Mentimeter Quiz 42
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Rehearsing Statistics 1 (Agresti, Ch. 1 – 8)
THE BASIS
Variables and their Measurement levels
- Variable – a characteristics that can vary in value among subjects in a sample or population (e.g.
XTC use)
o Variables each have their own measurement level
o Variable can take different “forms” (e.g. for XTC use: yes/no)
- Measurement level determines statistical technique to be used
- 4 different levels
o Nominal – at most classification in unordered categories
§ Does this category apply to this observation or not? Coding can be done with
numbers, letters, or symbols
o Ordinal – at most classification in ordered categories
§ Classification as ‘larger than’, ‘equal to’ or ‘smaller than’
§ Rank ordering: from high to low, from low to high
§ Nominal and ordinal together are categorical
§ We cannot interpret the difference in scores
§ Ordinal variables are ‘fuzzy’ – e.g. sum score of Likert scales
o Interval – besides ordering differences are interpretable as equal measurement units
o Ratio – besides ordering and equal measurement units there is absolute zero point
§ Interval and ratio together are metric or quantitative
- Measurement levels in practice
o Most methods suitable for interval and ratio (‘parametric methods’)
§ Nonparametric are less known and less used
o In practice, parametric methods are often used for ordinal and discrete data with many
possible values (e.g. Likert scales with 7 values or more – discrete à continuous)
Descriptive statistics
- Descriptive statistics are about summarizing data with tables and figures
o NO testing, no conclusions
o Can describe one variable or associations between multiple variables
o Different for categorical and quantitative data
o ALWAYS explore data before actually analyzing them!!!
- CATEGORICAL
o E.g. an exam question with 4
answers.
o Categorical variable (nominal)
o The frequency table describes the
frequencies per category
§ Can also determine proportion & percentage
o For each answer you can also make a figure: plot the frequency and the answer – bar graph
- QUANTITATIVE
o E.g. data on how many correct answers ppl
had on an exam (0 – 24)
o Frequency table now uses intervals for the
many values of this quantitative variable (e.g.
in this case they used steps of 2)
o Can also make figure - histogram
§ Use the intervals of quantitative scores
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§ Bars are CONNECTED because the scale is quantitative (quite normally distributed as
well)
o Stem and leaf-plot
§ Actually histogram but turned to the side
§ How to read?
• 0 row: just numbers like 8 and 9
• 1 row: these are “in the tens”, so e.g. a
3 in that row means 13. Just like that a 3 in the “2 row” means 23.
• Each number is a subject!
§ More informative than a histogram because it also shows
the frequency with which a specific number has appeared
(e.g. 4 people scored 15)
- Description of forms of distribution
o Normal distribution – bell shaped – clock form
§ Many variables are normally distributed
o Also other forms!
§ U-shaped
• Not very often in psychology,
sometimes when researching
attitudes (e.g. opinion on abortion)
§ Skewed distributions
• LEFT graph = skewed to left =
negative skew (many people
score higher)
• RIGHT graph = skewed to right
= positive skew (many people
score lower)
• Have to know where the
mean/median/mode is in skewed distribution!!!
- Description of data variability! (mean does not tell us everything)
o Range – difference between max and min
o Deviation – how much does a certain value differ
from the mean. Deviation 𝑦( − 𝑦"
o Sum of squares – calculate the differences for each Sum of squares ∑(𝑦( − 𝑦"),
value with the mean, square this difference and add ∑(./ 0.")1
them all up Variance 𝑠 , = 203
o Variance – measure of spread in the data
o Standard deviation – measure of spread in the data ∑(./ 0.")1
Standard deviation 𝑠 = 4 203
- The empirical rule – normal distribution
o If data is normally distributed (resembles a
clock form):
§ About 68% of the observations lie
within a distance of one standard
deviation from the mean (between 𝑦" −
𝑠 and 𝑦" + 𝑠)
§ About 95% of the observations lie
within a distance of two standard
deviations from the mean (between
𝑦" − 2𝑠 and 𝑦" + 2𝑠)
§ Almost all observations lie within 3 standard deviations from the mean (between
𝑦" − 3𝑠 and 𝑦" + 3𝑠)
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- Measures of position
o Quartiles – divide data up in four equal parts
o Interquartile range (IQR) – difference between first and third quartile
o Outlier – a score that is very extreme. You can
classify a score as an outlier as follows: if the
score is (1.5 * IQR) above or below the 3rd or 1st
quartile, it is an outlier.
§ Example: your score is -3, the 1st
quartile is 4, the 3rd quartile is 8, so the
IQR = 4.
§ 1.5 * 4 = 6
§ Below 1st quartile: 4 – 6 = -2 à your score classifies as an outlier because -3 is
further away from the 1st quartile than -2.
Probability distributions
- Probability – the chance than an observation takes on a particular value
- Probability distribution – all possible values of a variable and their probabilities
o Discrete probability distributions: each possible value has a probability, histogram with on
the y-axis the probabilities
o Continuous probability distributions: infinite number of possible values, probabilities of
chosen intervals of values. Figure with probability = area under the curve
- Population distribution
o Shows how the trait is actually distributed in the population.
o Can use values that result from this distribution (e.g. mean, sd) to determine the probability
on a certain score on y.
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o Use 𝑧 = 8
§ Fill in the sd, mean and y-score, then search for the probability in the z-table
o The population distribution uses parameters (often unknown, can be estimated)
- Sample distribution
o Shows how the trait is distributed in the sample
o Use sample statistics
o Larger the sample the better
- Sampling distribution
o Distribution of sample statistic (sample means) across samples
o Mean of the sampling distribution of 𝑦" is µ.
8
o The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of 𝑦" is the standard error 𝜎." =
√2
o The sampling distribution shows less spread than the population distribution, because:
§ Extreme values have a smaller probability to be drawn than central values
§ Drawing many extreme values is even less likely
§ These extreme values should then be extreme on one side
§ Extreme values are usually compensated by central values or an extreme value on
the other
side
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