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    Assignment: Interpreting Correlational Findings Following are brief summaries of correlational findings‚ in which variables were found to be significantly associated with each other. Your task is to determine which of the three major causal models (i.e.‚ interpretations) could account for each finding. Indicate in the table below‚ by placing an X in the appropriate space‚ which of these three models could provide a possible explanation. Place an X in the space only if you judge the causal

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    THE CORRELATION BETWEEN VOCABULARY AND NARRATIVE WRITING OF TENTH GRADE STUDENT AT SMA NEGERI 5 BATAM IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014 YOVITA WANDA HERAWATI English Department Student of Universitas Putera Batam FRANGKY SILITONGA‚ S.Pd. M.S.I English Department Lecturer of Universitas Putera Batam ABSTRAK Jurnal ini tentang korelasi antara kosakata dan menulis narasi di SMA Negeri 5. Subyek penelitian ini adalah siswa di SMA Negeri 5 Batam dari kelas sepuluh (X) pada tahun akademik 2013/2014

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    The purpose of this paper is to provide a response to a scenario by running a correlation and regression analysis for a statistics class assignment. The assignment provides a scenario with two part‚ pursuing ways to develop and maintain online and blended programs (Szapkiw‚ 2014‚ p. 2). This assignment required the use of SPSS to “choose the appropriate tests . . . run the tests and analyze the data” (Szapkiw‚ 2014‚ p. 14). Structure This assignment has two aspects and seven sections for the

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    relationships between 2+ variables * correlation studies measure variables; NOT manipulate: 1. Measure one variable (X) 2. Measure second variably (Y) 3. Statistically determine if X & Y are related (X Y) * BIDIRECTIONALITY PROBLEM: X Y‚ X Y‚ or X Y * THIRD VARIABLE PROBLEM: X Z Y * determines if association between variables exists * cannot draw causal conclusions * CORRELATION COEFFICIENT:

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    formulated to guide the study. The study was correlational because the study sought to establish the extent of relationship between broken homes and academic achievement. The statistical method used in analyzing the data was the Pearson product moment correlation coefficient (r). Reliable and validated questionnaires which were designed to elicit information on the hypotheses of study were used. Six senior secondary schools were randomly selected for the study. One hundred and fifty respondents from single

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    Random matrices have fascinated mathematicians and physicists since they were first introduced in mathe- matical statistics by Wishart in 1928. After a slow start‚ the subject gained prominence when Wigner introduced the concept of statistical distribution of nuclear energy levels in 1950. Since then‚ random matrix theory has matured into a field with applications in many branches of physics and mathematics‚ and nowadays random matrices find applications in fields as diverse as the Riemann

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    portray huge amounts of Ethnocentrism which operated internally on the minds of conquered societies as well as cultures. The eastern perception on the way of life degraded other traditions in order to uplift the status of their own beliefs. The correlation of Ethnocentrism led to the encouragement of Nationalism demonstrating the characterization of hubris. In the text Things Fall Apart‚ Chinua Achebe constructs an environment where the Ibo culture is socially and politically affected by the invasion

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    social physique anxiety; our second survey measured the subjects ’ level of hypersensitive narcissism. Our findings were that the measures were moderately correlated. Significance testing proved that they were directly related to each other. Correlation Project: Social Physique Anxiety and Hypersensitive Narcissism Our initial hypothesis for this study stated that we believed that our two measures‚ social physique anxiety and hypersensitive narcissism‚ would be highly correlated. Two of the many

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    Abstract This paper will try to explain how there is a correlation between different parenting styles‚ different types of attachment and the different types of loving relationships -all according to different psychologists an their theories. It will try a prove it through interviews of two different cases‚ a person who has had a less fortunate childhood and a divorced marriage and a person who had a great childhood and a happy marriage. It will relate the two interviews back to the different theories

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    http://www.mathsisfun.com/data/standard-normal-distribution-table.html (Z table) http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/gerstman/StatPrimer/t-table.pdf (t table) Critical Values (Z) Level of Significance 1% 2% 4% 5% 10% Two Tailed ±2.56 ±2.32 ±2.05 ±1.96 ±1.64 Right tailed +2.32 +2.05 +1.75 +1.64 +1.28 Left tailed -2.32 -2.05 -1.75 -1.64 -1.28 Q1) A cinema hall has cold drinks fountain supplying Orange and Ditzy Colas. When the machine is turned on‚ it fills a 550ml cup with 500ml of the

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