Understanding of key concepts from Jackson and Trochim & Donnelly.
Answer the following questions:
1. What are degrees of freedom? How are the calculated?
2. What do inferential statistics allow you to infer?
3. What is the General Linear Model (GLM)? Why does it matter?
4. Compare and contrast parametric and nonparametric statistics. Why and in what types of cases would you use one over the other?
5. Why is it important to pay attention to the assumptions of the statistical test? What are your options if your dependent variable scores are not normally distributed?