SOCY 211 Quiz: SOCY 211 Test.docx

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 211
• Professor: Jones Adeji

Document Summary

Chapter 11: statistical significance ensures tests aren"t a result of mere chance, test of significance: detect non random relationship, measures of association: provide information about the strength and direction of relationships, trace causal relationships among variables, cannot prove two variables are causally related (cid:224) association is not proof that a causal relation exists, variables can be said to be associated if the distribution of one of them changes. Conditional distributions of y; they display the distribution of scores on the dependent variable for each condition of the independent variable: chi square (typically used for test of significance), any non zero variable obtained for chi square indicates association if chi square is zero, the variables are independent and not associated, possible for two variables to be associated (by a non zero chi square) but still be independent (fail to reject null hypothesis)