What up kid? You say stat is rough, hurtin your head. When you got stuck, you should a asked me instead. ahhh Just ask Mac. Think back how you begun. Is hypothesis test your first step, son. Don't reject the null, fail to reject the null either. Until you find whether the alpha value is higher. Quit flippin. Talkin about stat is so tough. Make sure you listen to the lesson while we're telling you stuff. Do you wanna compare one group to another Or perhaps one group to some known number? If your sample size is at 30 or more n >= 30 you best be testing this with the z score. If you remember these words it ain't no terror. Observed minus mean over standard error. obs - mean ------------ std dev When you check your z too for the critical sum... Degrees of freedom equals n minus one. x - _ i x What test. What test. z = ---------------------- i sigma What test. What test. R, F, T or B Chi squared from A to Z Now if you're workin with a sample small in size then the z test will not suffice. You're gonna have to use an alternative theory try t test to answer your query but if you wanna get a correct solution first you must assume a normal distribution. equal variance is a needed feature... but if not use a sample width procedure you'll have to and we told you to remember this forever observed minus mean over standard error if your samples are better matched a new course of action must be hatched calculate our apologies if we're monotonous but when your DV is dichotomous if your p value's less than point oh five p < .05 if you're looking to be innovative and you got variables that are qualitative conduct chi square and you'll do well just make sure you expect five in every cell sometimes two variables in the ranges one can predict how the other changes if you got this distinct impression you're in need of some linear regression To minimize error in your prognostication calculate the least squares equation This can be accomplished with ????? or you can just uses some matrices Beta nought is where you cross the y B B beta one is the slope of the line 0 1 R T and F all indicate whether your model can hold its weight if the SSE shows you're not too wrong, there's a real good chance that your model's strong. if you really wanna know how well it should fare hope you can find a large adjusted R squared is ... not ... but what if you got more than one predictor use multiple regression and you'll be the victor Get your evidence for the model validity just be aware of multicollinearity Which model is best, which is robust which model leaves the others in the dust So when this class is ancient history and you're into research or industry Remember these tips and you won't get stuck This is real s**t we're not makin this up...