PR 664 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dependent And Independent Variables, Contingency Table

• School: Ball State University
• Department: Public Relations
• Course: PR 664
• Professor: Robert Dittmer

Document Summary

This occurs when a relationship between one variable and another is different depending on the values of the third variable. Specifying the ways that a hypothesis expressing your relationship between two variables either holds out or doesn"t depends on the state of the third variable. This is considered contingent conditions or contingent causation exploration. Clarifying causal relationships by showing the operation of intervening variable is called interpretation. If you think of possible variables of ferry building efforts, you should figure out how to measure them and conduct a study where they are introduced as third variable"s along with the two principal variables. Five types of outcomes: the third variable is causally prior to the independent variable and accounts for the original relationship. This occurs on the third variable doesn"t affect the original relationship. The researcher can conclude that the third variable is not important in the relationship.